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Published in: oDRDown on the farm: a history lesson in KazanStalin’s collectivization of agriculture in the USSR in the 1930s led to famine, repression and widespread family...
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Published in: oDRDon't get me wrong, Mr Travin!Mary Dejevsky was surprised when her enthusiastic profile of St. Petersburg governor Valentina Matviyenko in...
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Published in: oDROryol: when the ‘new nobility’ turned terroristThe sleepy city of Oryol has erupted in terrorism. Investigations revealed how frustration at the state of Russia...
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Published in: oDRMatviyenko for President? I think not!To the amusement of the Russian media, an article appeared in Britain’s The Independent on 6 September suggesting...
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Published in: oDRPutin: on the shifting sands of doubtA recent Kommersant newspaper interview with Putin revealed the extent of his isolation from reality and inability...
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Published in: oDRYaroslau Romanchuk: my vision of a post-Lukashenka BelarusNext year's presidential elections offer a real opportunity of disposing a tired, weakened and unpopular Lukashenka,...
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Published in: oDRKaliningrad's Day of AngerSome weeks ago Kaliningrad achieved a first in Russia by getting its governor Georgy Boos fired by the Kremlin. On...
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Published in: oDRLaid low by the heatThe Russian heat wave has been going on for weeks. From her dacha Elena Strelnikova gives a wry account of officials...
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Published in: oDRPutin in a ring of fire
Russian government attempts to deal with the heat wave and the resulting widespread forest fires have been much...
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Published in: oDRDreaming of the sea, or a holiday in MoynaqDaniel Metcalfe's book ‘Out of Steppe’ describes his journey through Central Asia. In this excerpt he describes the...
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Published in: oDRRussia burns: an updateLack of personnel and organizational incompetence have seriously hampered the Russian response to forest fires,...
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Published in: oDRWhy the FSB is not the KGB!Last month amendments were passed to the law codifying the FSB’s surveillance of those citizens deemed to be threats...
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Published in: oDRSummer days at the dacha
In theory, Russians can holiday abroad these days. In practice, most can't afford it. Still, there are the pleasures...
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Published in: oDRWhat is Strategy 31?
For the last 12 months Russian cities have witnessed regular demonstrations to protest restrictions on the right to...
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Published in: oDR‘No, Mr.Putin, the West is no threat!’Many Russians experienced the collapse of the Soviet Union as defeat in a third world war and held Gorbachev...
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Published in: oDRGastarbeiters in kino: Russia's invisible class gets its big break
At the recent Kinotavr film festival — "Russia's Cannes" — the main competition featured no less than three films...
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Published in: oDR"Be innovative!", orders the Kremlin
The Russian attempt to build Silicon Valley in Skolkovo is a case of throwing good money after bad, argues Andrei...
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Published in: oDRAnimals in the CourtroomEx-Yukos bosses Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev stand accused of a crime that even prosecutors are finding...
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Published in: oDRThe Black Widows of Dagestan: Media Hype and Genuine HarmOn April 9 2010, after explosions in the Moscow metro killed 39 people, rumours were circulated of 1,000 ‘black...
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Published in: oDRHerb and Spices: Tatarstan's drug problemsIn the third of a series on drugs in Russia's regions, Oleg Pavlov reports from the Republic of Tatarstan, 400 miles...
