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Published in: oDRThe rise and fall of Mikhail KhodorkovskyDoes a personal vendetta lie behind the imprisonment of Russia’s once-richest oligarch, Mikhail Khodorkovsky? Was...
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Published in: oDRKafka’s Castle is collapsingYou can’t reason with the absurd, as IKEA found when it tried to build a model business in Russia. Institutional...
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Published in: oDRIs Russia’s judicial system reformable?In this interview for oDRussia, Prof.Alena Ledeneva talks to Oliver Carroll about the prospects for judicial reform...
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Published in: oDRTackling Russia’s legal nihilismOlga Kudeshkina made headlines in 2004 as the first Russian judge to flag up political interference in the judicial...
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Published in: oDRSo what do Russia’s people think?In the first of his regular monthly reports for odRussia, Alexei Levinson of Russia’s prestigious Levada Centre...
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Published in: oDRLife and death of an independent newspaper in OryolIn 2004, some local journalists in Oryol founded an independent newspaper ‘for those who want the truth’. Although...
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Published in: oDRDrug crisis on Russia’s bordersRussia’s drugs problem has reached crisis point in Orenburg Region. It borders on Central Asia and is used as a...
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Published in: oDRUkraine: preserving nationhoodRussian-Ukrainian ties may have deteriorated during Yushchenko’s presidency, but his successor Yanukovych is...
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Published in: oDRIKEA in Russia: Now 'Everything is Possible'...for a priceIKEA, which has publicly railed against corruption in Russia, has itself been caught paying bribes there. Could...
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Published in: oDRRussian Reform at a Turning Point
Much of Russian history is characterized by pendulum swings between orthodoxy and reform to overcome backwardness....
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Published in: oDRA Soldier’s Tale (4): the army paradox
Letters are a life-line for Tolya. The army’s a mysterious entity, unknowable by anyone outside it, the conscript...
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Published in: oDRPost-Soviet integration: CST, CSTO, CRRF etc (2)
There have been many attempts at building new structures to replace the Soviet Union, since it fell 10 years ago....
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Published in: oDRRussia’s foreign policy: modernise or marginalise (1)Russia’s foreign policy is outdated, according to the distinguished foreign affairs analyst Dmitry Trenin. In the...
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Published in: oDRFleeced. A letter from the Russian provincesCorruption has always been part of Russian life, and the Oryol region today just offers a rather extreme example,...
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Published in: oDRPerm blaze sets Russia alight
The recent catastrophic fire at the Lame Horse nightclub in Perm grabbed national headlines. Local authorities all...
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Published in: HomePodcast of the openDemocracy Russia evening, London, July 2009
Listen to a podcast of the openDemocracy Russia evening on 2 July 2009 in London. The editor of openDemocracy's...
