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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: 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: FeatureDown and out in Kyiv: how Russia’s invasion has hit homeless peopleFrom volunteers’ help and empathy to alleged removal from the city by police: Kyiv’s homeless people recount their...
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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 Turkey
Turkey’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: AnalysisThe Ukraine war is at a dangerous stalemate. What’s next?Vladimir Putin is now fighting a proxy war against NATO. Losing would be a disaster for either side
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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: AnalysisWhy do Russians support the war against Ukraine?More than 100 new interviews by Russian researchers have shed light on the different groups in Russian society who...
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Published in: oDR: FeatureRussia and China are moving closer together. Is this a new world order?Now that Putin and his generals have threatened Russia’s economic power by invading Ukraine, they have one place...
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Published in: Home: OpinionCan Russia be brought to justice for war crimes in Ukraine?As more Russian troops withdraw, many more instances of appalling conduct – including torturing and killing...
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Published in: ourEconomy: NewsArms firms spent €6m lobbying Germany ahead of defence budget hikeThe news raises questions over industry’s access to power, with influential politicians known to work with...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionWe know Russia funds Europe’s far Right. But what does it get in return?Many influential European ultra-conservatives share an ideological alignment with Moscow – particularly on the...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionEuropean trade unions could send convoys to help Ukraine. Here’s howInternational trade union convoys to Bosnia were a vital reminder that the world cared about the people there and...
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Published in: Home: NewsUK anti-corruption laws aid kleptocrat regimes like Putin’s, report saysGovernment-funded experts claim legislation to seize UK property bought with dirty money may do more harm than good
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Published in: oDR: OpinionWestern hypocrisy: What Joe Biden gets wrong about RussiaThose in the Middle East know the kind of destruction seen in Ukraine all too well – the West was the perpetrator
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Published in: Home: FeatureNigerian students on facing racism as they fled the Ukraine warTrying to escape Russia’s invasion was ‘dehumanising’, say Nigerians who were stopped by border guards prioritising...
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Published in: Technology and Democracy: OpinionDoes facial recognition tech in Ukraine’s war bring killer robots nearer?Clearview AI is offering its controversial tech to Ukraine for identifying enemy soldiers – while autonomous killing...
