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Published in: oDRThe lower depths in Russia todayOver a century after Maksim Gorky’s famous play about homeless people – ‘The Lower Depths' – Ekaterina Loushnikova...
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Published in: oDROn your marks, get set… intercept!Russia is devoting considerable effort to trying to ensure that the Sochi Winter Olympics are safe and secure. Mark...
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Published in: oDRA Different ChildhoodWhat is the experience of growing up gay in Russia? oDRussia publishes extracts of Sergey Khazov's...
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Published in: oDRStavropol — frontline between Russia and the North CaucasusTHE CEELBAS DEBATE// Stavropol is the only one of seven North Caucasus territories with a majority Russian...
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Published in: oDRRussia: a teenage suicide epidemic?Russia has the highest underage suicide rate in Europe. Yelena Vorobyova reports from the Bryansk region, where 10...
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Published in: oDROrenburg shawls: a classic of Russian folk artGossamer or spider web shawls have been knitted in Orenburg for generations. The tradition nearly disappeared, but...
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Published in: oDRRussia’s drinking habits today – still hooked on vodka, or do they prefer vino?Russians and vodka have always been a notorious and combustible combination, but the availability of alcohol has...
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Published in: oDRRussians, be horrified at yourselves!Russia’s problems are many and varied – low life expectancy and falling population figures, soaring rates for crime,...
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Published in: oDRFlowers on a dung heap: markets, politicians and the demise of Russian rural lifeThe economic and political transformations of the 1990s onwards have allowed much of the Russian countryside to die...
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Published in: oDRRussian economy: trying to please people doesn’t help20 years ago there was all to play for: the USSR was defunct and Russia was embarking on a bright future. But the...
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Published in: oDRIs corruption in Russia's DNA?It is difficult to think back to a time when corruption was not endemic in Russia. It is now crippling the country,...
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Published in: oDROn the eve of collapse: encounters in a changing RussiaNext week marks the twentieth anniversary of the August 1991 coup attempt. While this proved a dramatic final nail...
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Published in: oDRMikhail Prokhorov: gilt-edged whipping boy for the Russian elections?The recent appointment of Mikhail Prokhorov as leader of the liberal party Right Cause is puzzling. He’s the third...
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Published in: oDRA meeting with Andrei Konchalovsky: Part IIDirector Andrei Konchalovksy and film critic Professor Ian Christie continue a fascinating conversation. In this...
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Published in: oDRAlaska-Chukotka: when cousins reuniteSoviet times were hard for the indigenous people of the Russian Far East, but perestroika allowed them to reunite...
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Published in: oDRCorruption, complicity, careerism: the hydra of Russian justiceOnce inside the wheels of the Russian legal system, the odds are stacked against you and a guilty verdict is...
