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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: InterviewNagorno-Karabakh: What does the future hold?
18 months on from the 2020 war, people living in the disputed territory tell openDemocracy about their ‘new reality’
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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: oDR: Interview‘I had no fear’: The volunteers saving people and pets from Irpin
Three volunteers talk to openDemocracy about putting their lives at risk to rescue abandoned dogs, cats and birds...
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Published in: oDR: InterviewRussia’s elite wants to f*** the West. This journalist is chronicling it
Interview: Political journalist Farida Rustamova discusses her reporting on Putin’s inner circle, which has caught...
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisWhy Belarus is yet to join Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Belarus’ underground resistance campaign is disrupting Russian military transports – and preventing Lukashenka from...
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Published in: oDR: FeatureWhat Russian students being sentenced for their activism want you to know
Editors from the student news site DOXA are in the dock for publishing a video about protests. Before being...
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Published in: oDR: FeatureThese people survived Mariupol. Here are their stories
Three people who have managed to escape the besieged city tell openDemocracy of the horrors they witnessed
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Published in: oDR: InterviewThis is how Kyiv’s oldest newspaper is covering Russia’s war on Ukraine
Evening Kyiv is the Ukrainian capital’s oldest newspaper. Its chief editor told us what he has learned about working...
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Published in: oDR: FeatureFive days that changed my life: Russia’s devastating attack on my hometown
Irpin, the quiet commuter town outside Kyiv where I live, became a terrifying battleground almost overnight. By some...
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisTajikistan has a special relationship with Russia. Could war change that?
The difference between the silence of ‘official’ Dushanbe and the views found on Tajikistan’s streets could not be starker
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Published in: oDR: Feature‘I can't feed my family’: Migrant workers in Russia hit hard by Ukraine war
With many Central Asian states reliant on cash sent back home from those working abroad in Russia, sanctions are...
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Published in: oDR: FeatureBelarus is locking up Wikipedia editors over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
As Russia and Belarus try to cover up key facts about the war, they’re going after a popular source of information
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Published in: oDR: OpinionEuropean trade unions could send convoys to help Ukraine. Here’s how
International trade union convoys to Bosnia were a vital reminder that the world cared about the people there and...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionWestern hypocrisy: What Joe Biden gets wrong about Russia
Those 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: oDR: OpinionInternational media are abusing the heroism of Ukraine’s journalists
As international media try to cover the horror of Russia's attack on Ukraine, they are failing the people who are...
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Published in: oDR: Feature‘I was forcibly evacuated from Mariupol to Russia’
A Ukrainian writer was forcibly evacuated from the besieged city of Mariupol into Russia. This is her account of...
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisUK law is masking corruption. Why is the government delaying its reform?
Law professor Elspeth Berry explains the loopholes that have let faceless ‘partnership’ firms get away with fraud for years
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Published in: oDR: Feature‘We have to do something’: Lviv gears up to help those fleeing war
As displaced people flood into Lviv in western Ukraine, the city’s residents have united to assist new arrivals....
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Published in: oDR: OpinionUkraine war shows ‘nuclear deterrence’ doesn’t work. We need disarmament
Despite leaders’ claims, nuclear weapons don’t prevent war or make life safer or more peaceful – they put the...