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Published in: oDRFractured friendships: Soviet-Afghan War veterans make their way through instability and conflictThirty 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 homeFive 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 eliteThe 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 ChechnyaAfter 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 corruptionA 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 askingNew 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-2000sTen 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 anywayTen 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 MarkelovTen 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 RussiaSince 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 remainsTen 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 activistsFor Russian law enforcement, informal connections with the opposition can be anything from genuine...
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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 GulagThe sprawling system of Soviet camps contained many untold stories. I spoke to one of the few historians researching...
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Published in: oDRHidden motivations: a brutal attack on a Russian Orthodox Church in Chechnya leaves questions unansweredAllegations of a cover-up and improper qualification of an organised assault on an Orthodox Church in May this year...
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Published in: oDRMeet Atsamaz Khadikov, the man leading North Ossetia's quiet struggle for a non-toxic environmentRussia's North Caucasus region is famed for its landscapes and nature. But as this local doctor and activist tells...
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