This corner of Karelia is known for two things: its paper mill and its prison. But its residents are fed up with poor quality housing, inefficient public transport and an unresponsive state — and are trying to do something about it. RU
Environmental activists in Russia’s North Caucasus are fighting not just for the environment, but their own lives. RU
Жители карельского города Сегежи вышли на митинг и потребовали отставки мэра. English
Украина и Россия находятся в ситуации самовоспроизводящегося конфликта: агрессия подпитывает изоляцию и провоцирует дальнейшую агрессию. Украинские и российские активисты видят эту проблему – но смогут ли они ее перебороть?
The Sobchak and Navalny campaigns are two very different options for the future of Russia’s democratic movement.
In Tajikistan, academic freedom is severly under threat. But how should the international academic community respond?
Open letter from Uzbek human rights activists to British sculptor Paul Day, commissioned to commemorate former President. The sculpture is to go outside the Uzbek embassy in Moscow.
With flat-rate taxes and sky-high growth rates, some call Nagorno-Karabakh a “Caucasian Tiger”. Meanwhile, money from abroad funds a generous but militaristic social welfare system — maintaining border villages and swelling the army’s ranks.
Once the pride of the Soviet Union, Tolyatti’s car factories are cutting workers and raising production quotas by the year. The cost is all too human.
Developments in Russia’s intellectual community confirm that the worst Soviet practices and institutions are being restored. They have no place in Russia today – yet they’ve already become entrenched in it. RU
More information on the Russian security services' arrest and torture of anarchists and anti-fa in Petersburg and Penza emerges.
2018 is an election year in Azerbaijan. The authorities may have the streets on lockdown, but the fight against dissent in cyberspace is just beginning.
