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Published in: oDR“I’d prefer to die in Poland”: Chechnya’s most famous YouTuber in exile faces deportation to Russia
After fleeing Chechnya, blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov came to command a million-strong audience online. But now he...
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Published in: oDRBack in the USSR: meet the people calling for the restoration of the Soviet Union
Soviet passport-holders are agitating for a revival of the USSR and a takeover of the British crown. RU
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Published in: oDRMimetic power: how Russia pretends to be a normal member of the international community
When it comes to promoting its influence abroad, the Russian state relies on mimicry and imitation.
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Published in: oDRDraft legislation in Ukraine targets same-sex relationships
A Ukrainian MP has introduced legislation to criminalise same sex relationships and protect traditional values. RU
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Published in: oDRAbuse of power? On the trail of China's mystery millions in Kyrgyzstan
For over six months, Kyrgyzstan has been mired in a high-level corruption scandal: a disastrous $386 million project...
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Published in: oDRWhat we know about alleged elite corruption under former Kyrgyz president Almazbek Atambayev
As Kyrgyzstan’s new regime consolidates power, fresh allegations of corruption by Atambayev loyalists are emerging.
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Published in: oDRMoscow is solving its waste problem – by sending it to Russia's regions
Waste disposal has become a political problem for Russia’s capital, and the authorities are now looking to transfer...
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Published in: oDRMeet the editors of a new journal challenging prejudices about eastern Europe
The Bucharest-based Kajet journal was founded to challenge cliches about eastern Europe — a region that can be “more...
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Published in: oDRWhat went wrong in eastern Europe?
A new book sheds light on the early warning signs of illiberalism – and gives some modest hope for the future.
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Published in: oDREntrepreneurs of political violence: the varied interests and strategies of the far-right in Ukraine
For Ukraine's far right, violence has become a source of influence and power.
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Published in: oDRIn Russia’s North Caucasus, an unprecedented, peaceful protest
In Ingushetia, people have come out to protest land transfer to neighbouring Chechya. For now, the Kremlin is listening.
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Published in: oDRMilitarised society: memory politics, history and gender in Ukraine
In Ukraine, history could be used to help make sense of the brutal ongoing war, but it can also be instrumentalised...
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Published in: oDRHow Hungary and Ukraine fell out over a passport scandal
Ukraine’s border region of Zakarpattya is home to the country’s Hungarian community – and is now the centre of a...
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Published in: oDRMeet the Ukrainian mothers battling for their sons held in Russian prison
Families of Ukrainian political prisoners in Russian jails are fighting for their release – and this struggle is...
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Published in: oDR“We really need you, Anna!”: Svetlana Alexievich, Binalakshmi Nepram write to Anna Politkovskaya
To mark the 12 years since Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s murder, two laureates of an award for women human...
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Published in: oDRThe democratic future of Uzbekistan doesn’t depend on the politicians, but whether workers can mobilise
Uzbekistan’s transition to a market economy will require further worker suppression. But signs of worker...
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Published in: oDRWhy Russia should not enjoy impunity in the Council of Europe
Without fulfilling conditions set out in the Parliamentary Assembly’s resolutions, why should Russia be allowed...
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Published in: 50.50‘Sexual liberation, socialist style’: an overlooked women’s rights story?
New research by Kateřina Lišková places eastern bloc countries at the forefront of the 20th-century push for gender equality
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Published in: oDRDecentralising Ukraine: the view from Khmelnytsky
Three years of Ukraine’s most successful reform have produced results that are, at times, unexpected and ambiguous. RU
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Published in: oDRWays to end the conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas: an interview with Serhiy Kudelia
The conflict in eastern Ukraine is at a stalemate. How do we break through it?