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Published in: 50.50: ExplainerExplainer: What does new ‘gay propaganda’ law mean for LGBTIQ+ Russians?
Russia has passed a controversial law banning the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality. Here’s what you need to know
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Published in: oDR: FeatureAt COP27, Russia acted as though it had not invaded Ukraine
Russia urged international cooperation while ignoring its own role in making the climate crisis worse
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Published in: Home: OpinionRussia’s missiles and winter conditions mean no quick end to Ukraine war
Are there prospects for peace in Ukraine amid Russian missile attacks and a winter battlefield stalemate?
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Published in: 50.50: AnalysisRussian soldiers accused of targeted anti-gay attacks in Ukraine
Exclusive: Russian troops guilty of homophobic abuse including sexual violence and imprisonment, says LGBTIQ group
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Published in: oDR: FeatureUkrainians who told Russian warship to ‘f*** yourself’ still in jail
Snake Island became a powerful symbol of Ukraine’s resistance. But the prisoners’ families say they feel forgotten
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Published in: Home: OpinionDown with Putin’s modern czarism! A response to Yanis Varoufakis
OPINION: Russia was threatened by Ukraine’s emergent democracy. Here’s what that means for the path to peace
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Published in: oDR: OpinionAre we seeing the end times of Russia’s police capitalism?
By mobilising working class and minority ethnic men for war against Ukraine, Russia launched its first class war of...
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Published in: oDR: FeatureUkrainian families’ fury at silence over Russia-held POWs
Some 30 members of Ukraine’s 93rd Mechanised Brigade are thought to have been captured. But their families are in the dark
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Published in: oDR: ExplainerWho are the Russian security forces upholding Putin’s brutal regime?
Some five million members of the siloviki are responsible for maintaining Putin's crackdown on any opposition
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Published in: Home: NewsNo evidence for Jacob Rees-Mogg’s fracking claims, government admits
The former energy secretary had claimed anti-fracking groups were funded by the Russian president
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Published in: oDR: OpinionPutin’s opponents are leaving Russia. Does that make change harder?
A closer look at the world of some anti-Putin emigrants shows they are no great loss to any future revolution
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Published in: oDR: FeatureRoles flip as Russians become ‘migrant workers’ in Tajikistan (for now)
For the first time in 30 years, Russians are heading to Central Asia rather than the other way around – to escape war
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Published in: oDR: NewsUK MPs demand ‘just reconstruction’ in Ukraine amid fears for workers’ rights
Money for Ukraine’s recovery must ‘not disappear into the hands of oligarchs’, Nadia Whittome told openDemocracy
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Published in: oDR: FeatureRussian police are torturing anti-war activists
Those standing up to the war report horrific instances of abuse at the hands of the authorities
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Published in: oDR: Feature‘You can’t do anything useful in jail,’ says leading Russian street artist
Timofey Radya talks to openDemocracy about anti-war resistance in the streets and his love for his country
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Published in: Home: NewsTory donor ‘reliant on Russia’s FSB’ has name removed from kleptocracy report
Parliament heard claims Dmitry Leus, who donated £50,000 to Tories, is ‘absolutely dependent’ on Russian spy agency
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Published in: oDR: NewsUkraine wants Israel-style security guarantees from allies and the world
Thirty years ago Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons in return for security assurances. Now, it wants ironclad...
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Published in: Home: OpinionYanis Varoufakis: The US is no ally of the Left – in Ukraine or anywhere
OPINION: Anthony Barnett is wrong – Russia’s invasion does not make America into a defender of democracy
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Published in: oDR: FeatureHard to stay, hard to leave: Ukrainians on the struggle to evacuate Donetsk region
openDemocracy talks to those who’ve fled the front lines, about why many are reluctant to leave
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Published in: Home: OpinionA betrayal of Ukraine and the Left
Have socialists like Yanis Varoufakis and Jeremy Corbyn got their history wrong?