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Published in: oDR“My only crime is that I am a Muslim”: mass terrorism arrests hit Crimean Tatar solidarity campaign
Mass arrests of Crimean Tatar activists on terrorism charges once again testify to the “special rules” that are...
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Published in: oDR"No serious evidence" in high-profile terrorism case against Russian anti-fascists
In Russia, 11 anti-fascists and anarchists are facing terrorism charges - and the case is about to go to trial....
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Published in: oDR“Everyone’s involved and everyone stays silent”: Igor Kochetkov on Chechnya, LGBT activism and neotraditionalism
This year, brutal repressions against LGBT people continued in Chechnya. Here, the director of the Russian LGBT...
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Published in: oDRFractured friendships: Soviet-Afghan War veterans make their way through instability and conflict
Thirty years on from the end of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, war veterans are having to deal with...
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Published in: oDRHow ordinary Crimeans helped Russia annex their home
Five years on, the role of local people in Russia’s annexation of Crimea has been underestimated. Yet their help was...
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Published in: oDR"Always depoliticise!" How public politics became a headache for Russia’s ruling elite
The fundamental ideology of the Putin regime may be depoliticisation, but protests and petitions are leading to...
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Published in: oDRLeft behind? Russian life in Chechnya
After years of violence, displacement and an authoritarian peace, what is life like for ethnic Russians in the most...
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Published in: oDRGrain truck drivers in south Russia wage war on corruption
A strike by Russian grain hauliers, demanding higher pay and an end to corruption, has gripped the south of the country. RU
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Published in: oDRChechnya LGBT crisis 2.0: what questions we need to be asking
New reports of mass arrests, torture and murder of LGBT people in Chechnya remind us that accountability is...
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Published in: oDRDid the FSB use a neo-Nazi agent provocateur in their case against Russian anti-fascists?
After the first defendant in a high-profile terrorism investigation is sentenced, new evidence emerges that security...
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Published in: oDRStanislav Markelov: Russia’s Trade Union Movement, 1990s-2000s
Ten years ago this month, Russian activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov was murdered. Here, we publish an extended...
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Published in: oDRStanislav Markelov: F*** anarchy, there’s no future anyway
Ten years ago this month, activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov was murdered in Moscow. We publish his reflections on...
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Published in: oDRThe Living Front of Stanislav Markelov
Ten years ago, activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov was murdered in Moscow. His legacy tells us why anti-fascism...
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Published in: oDRStanislav Markelov: the situation of political prisoners in Russia
Since the late 1990s, Russia has seen an increasing rise in the number of terrorism cases - both real and...
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Published in: oDRStanislav Markelov: Times change but the stagnation remains
Ten years ago this month, activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov was murdered in Moscow. We publish his reflections on...
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Published in: oDRHow Russia’s security services try to recruit opposition activists
For Russian law enforcement, informal connections with the opposition can be anything from genuine...
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Published in: oDRAbnormal normality: Alexander Hug about the present and future of Donbas
What role can civil society play in creating the dialogue necessary to end the war in Donbas? RU
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Published in: oDR“Electric shock is our way of doing things”
A number of Russian anti-fascists and anarchists have been tortured by the country's security services. The official...
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Published in: oDR“We don’t need the State Department to hold a revolution”
Russian rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina has been defending the rights of refugees and displaced persons for...
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Published in: oDRGay life in Stalin’s Gulag
The sprawling system of Soviet camps contained many untold stories. I spoke to one of the few historians researching...