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Published in: Home: OpinionThe Ukraine war has given NATO renewed credibility. That’s a problemOn the biggest issues that will threaten people around the world in the coming years, NATO is well-night irrelevant
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Published in: oDR: NewsUkraine’s new labour law could ‘open Pandora’s box’ for workersUkrainian parliament set to vote on new labour law that threatens workers with a ‘rollback to the 19th century’
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisGoodbye Russian gas, hello rapid decarbonisationWe must cut Russian fossil fuel imports and change our energy use, to combat both the cost of living crisis and the...
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Published in: oDR: NewsHalf of Russians think ‘kindness’ is their key national trait, finds pollRussian respondents to the survey also reported feeling ‘pride’ and ‘a sense of justice’ about the ‘special military...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionRussia’s working class and Ukraine: hope for an end to Kremlin expansionism?While Russia’s ruling elite clamps down on anti-Ukraine war protests, its working class could be the key to a...
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Published in: oDR: InterviewWhat do persecuted Russian Muslim converts tell us about Putin’s Russia?Interview: Olga Kravets discusses her book on Russian converts to Islam, and how their repression bodes ill for...
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Published in: Home: OpinionThere’s still hope for a negotiated end to the Ukraine warWhile there remains a danger that Russia will yet escalate the conflict, perhaps with nuclear weapons, this can...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: OpinionCan the new Economic Crime Bill really tackle the UK’s dirty money problem?From Russian money laundering to a fraud epidemic, economic crime costs the UK at least £290bn a year. The...
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Published in: oDR: Feature‘War is terrible. But today is a holiday’: how Russia celebrated Victory DayAcross Russia, people mark the Soviet Union’s victory in World War Two - and the brutal war against Ukraine
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Published in: oDR: OpinionWe must act to reject Putin’s conservative ‘victory cult’On the 77th anniversary of the end of Second World War, the anti-fascist inheritance of the Russian Federation faces...
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Published in: Home: AnalysisWill Putin use 9 May to escalate the Ukraine war or signal its end?The president is likely to make an announcement on Russia's annual Victory Day. What he says will offer insight into...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionDid the Kremlin launch an invasion to guarantee Putin’s succession?Independent Russia has yet to come up with a way of transferring power other than war
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Published in: Home: Feature‘Forget about Elon Musk’: How to save the world from Big TechIn an openDemocracy live discussion, Shoshana Zuboff and Susie Alegre warned that, left unchecked, Big Tech can...
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Published in: oDR: FeatureRoubles and repression: how life in Russian-occupied Kherson is changingDaily life in an occupied Ukrainian city continues with a veneer of normality – and an undercurrent of shortages,...
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Published in: 50.50: Video‘War gave us the final push’: Why one gay couple fled Russia for TurkeyTurkey’s record on LGBTQI rights is little better than Russia’s. All the same, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was the...
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Published in: oDR: FeatureZelenskyi’s spokesperson: soldier, actor, psychologist, propagandistOleksiy Arestovych, presidential adviser and key spokesperson for Ukraine at war, has a strange past
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Published in: Home: FeaturePoor us: how collective narcissism powers Trump and Putin’s supportersIndividuals can feel narcissism for their group as well as themselves – and many politicians are succeeding by...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionIs Hungary’s Viktor Orbán the US Christian Right’s new Vladimir Putin?The fall of Putin’s star among US evangelicals leaves a void they may seek to fill with another strongman leader...
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisWhat Russia-Ukraine war means for disputed Nagorno-Karabakh territoryThousands of Russians have fled to the Armenian capital of Yerevan. But the war has far bigger implications for the...
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Published in: oDR: Feature‘You betrayed the Motherland’: Russians are being fired for speaking outopenDemocracy talks to three people who have received abuse at work – or even lost their jobs – after objecting to...
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