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Published in: oDRIn Uzbekistan, homosexuality is illegal. Here's what LGBT life is like there
In a country where sex between men is a crime, these personal accounts reveal the everyday realities of pressure,...
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Published in: oDRWhy domestic violence is flourishing in Kyrgyzstan - and how it could stop
Nearly three years ago, a law outlawing domestic violence was passed in Kyrgyzstan, but it has had little effect....
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Published in: oDR: OpinionGrim news from Kyrgyzstan on domestic violence
It shouldn’t take a series of brutal murders to prompt government action.
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Published in: oDRSix years after Ukraine’s revolution, justice for the Euromaidan dead is still far away
The trial into mass shootings in central Kyiv during the 2014 revolution has stalled after political interference -...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionRemembering Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity
Did the Ukrainian Maidan almost change western civilisation? A new book argues that it did - and much else besides.
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Published in: oDRInside the fight over Russia’s domestic violence law
Who is preventing Russia’s domestic violence legislation from going ahead - and does it have any future?
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Published in: oDRAs repression rises in Russia, so does solidarity
A high-profile terrorism investigation into Russian anti-fascists has helped a new front emerge in Russia - a front...
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Published in: oDRHow a local politician took up the fight for LGBT rights in Russia’s northern capital
Sergey Troshin was elected to a district council in St Petersburg last year - and has made it his mission to discuss...
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Published in: oDR: Opinionინვესტორის ძალისხმევამ ქართველი მშრომელების ინტერესები და ამერიკელი კონგრესმენების ვალდებუელებები ერთამენთს დააპირისპირა
როდესაც უცხიური ინვესტიციები ადგებიან გაურკევევლ გზას, შეერთებული შტატების ჩრდილი ყოველთვის იკვეთება ამ პროცესისი მიღმა.
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Published in: oDR: OpinionAn investor standoff in Georgia brings workers, US congressmen into conflict
As a major foreign investor faces rocky times in Georgia, America looms in the shadows.
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Published in: oDR: OpinionA new film brings Chechnya’s horrific anti-gay purge to the screen
In 2017, Chechnya orchestrated a brutal anti-gay purge, destroying dozens of lives. With little accountability, it...
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Published in: oDRTeaching the Holocaust in Ukraine, eight decades on
Seventy five years on from the liberation of Auschwitz, we interview a researcher in western Ukraine on making...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionMoves against labour rights reveal blind spot in Ukraine’s reform agenda
Ukraine’s draft labour law tests international commitments to human rights and freedom of association.
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Published in: oDRIn eastern Ukraine, an information vacuum - and a debate over journalistic standards
In five years of conflict in eastern Ukraine, a second demarcation line has emerged – over information.
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Published in: oDR: OpinionThe game's afoot: scenarios of power transition in Russia
The transition in Russia has begun. What will it look like?
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Published in: oDR“Pass a law, even if it’s a bad one”: how Armenia is tackling domestic violence
Two years on since Armenia passed a domestic violence law, it’s time to look at how it’s being implemented.
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Published in: oDRTo remember is to fight: the legacy of Russian activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov
Eleven years ago, this anti-fascist lawyer was murdered on the streets of Moscow. Stanislav Markelov’s legacy...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionThe republic of Kalmykia is angry, disappointed and very much online
The arrival of an unpopular politician in this southern Russian republic has brought people out on to the streets –...
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Published in: oDROrganising for peace in Ukraine: an interview with Nina Potarska
For Potarska, listening to people on both sides of the frontline in eastern Ukraine is crucial for even tiny steps...
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Published in: oDRThey shot to kill: the massacre of Kazakhstan’s striking oil workers, eight years on
Eight years after the infamous massacre of striking oil workers and their supporters at Zhanaozen in western...