In Siberia, agriculture faces crisis after crisis as small farmers find themselves in debt caused by bad weather, bureaucracy and corruption.
Passing laws against gender-motivated violence and gender inequality is not the same as putting them into practice.
History is nowadays not only written by the victors, but by anybody who wants to use history for their own ends.
This is presidential election year, which usually means a tightening of the screws on any hint of opposition.
The oligarchs have joined forces to railroad a new labour code that strips Ukrainian workers of their already modest rights.
Valery Pavlukevich, who recently passed away, was a regular contributor to oDR. In his last appearance on these pages, he tells Michael Lawrence about the samizdat scene in his home city of Kuibyshev, now Samara.
Slavery flourishes in Russian regions where a weak state, low salaries, and corrupt police make it profitable.
One of the grey cardinals of modern Russian politics, Gleb Pavlovsky talks dissent, history and politics in the late-Soviet era.
At last, we can read what we have been missing – a literature as unpredictable as Georgian politics.
Today, the name Yelena Mizulina is a byword for Russian ultra-conservatism. But her ‘patriotic’ policies have a surprisingly liberal backstory.
How to play hardball: Ukraine's parliament has revoked the agreement between Russia and Ukraine on the movement of Russian troops through Ukrainian territory to Transnistria.
Ahead of elections this autumn, the political drama around LGBT rights in Kyrgyzstan hots up.
