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Published in: oDR: OpinionWhy betting on Putin’s departure is a losing game
To avoid years of warfare in Ukraine, the West needs to deal with Russia as it is now, not as it should be
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Published in: oDR: NewsThe UK firm at the heart of a high-level fraud conviction in Russia
The Magomedov brothers defrauded the Russian state of billions – via a Scottish limited partnership
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisRussia’s recently exiled media learn hard lessons abroad
Russian independent media outlets are making a painful transition from Kremlin censorship to life in exile
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Published in: oDR: FeatureRussia promised Kherson it would stay forever. It left chaos behind
The author returns to his home town, to discover how locals are coping now the Russians have gone
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe future of Russia in Ukraine: a different kind of war?
OPINION: Ukraine could be doomed to years of low-level conflict with Russia, with Ukrainian people paying the price
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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