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Published in: oDRУкраїнський некролог
Як слід пам’ятати загиблих у війні на Донбасі?Read in English
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Published in: oDRA Ukrainian obituary
More than five years since the war in Donbas started, how should we remember those who have died in it?Read in Ukrainian
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Published in: oDR: Opinion“Two fields” within: Lost between Russian and Kazakh in the Eurasian borderland
Russia’s colonial relationship to Central Asia can still be felt in activism and academia. Today, these networks...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionA view from the margins: alienation and accountability in Central Asian studies
Sociological study and political struggle increasingly go hand-in-hand. But in Central Asia, research needs to...
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Published in: oDR“Formulaic justice”: read this Crimean Tatar journalist’s final words in court
Five years on, the annexation of Crimea has become the “new normal” for many. But this “normal” is created through a...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionListening to women’s stories: the ambivalent role of feminist research in Central Asia
Scholars look to feminist research methods to make their field work more equal. But how does radical research work...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionHow does it feel to be studied? A Central Asian perspective
Central Asian researchers often feel like second-class participants in the global knowledge economy. Academic...
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Published in: oDR“We want a clean city”: why Yerevan is up in arms about waste management
In post-revolutionary Armenia, the monopolies of the past - even over trash - are coming increasingly into question.
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Published in: oDR: OpinionWhen your field is also your home: introducing feminist subjectivities in Central Asia
What happens when the “field” is your home, your battlefield and your livelihood? This new series examines the...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionWhen “the field” is your institution: on academic extortion and complaining as activism
What happens when an institution fundamentally lets you down? Part of our new series on Central Asian scholars and...
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Published in: oDRA family business: how Russian security forces target the Crimean Tatar community
In occupied Crimea, Russia's security services regular go after whole Crimean Tatar families.
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Published in: oDRHow this Russian journalist could end up in prison “for justifying terrorism”
In the aftermath of a shocking bomb attack by a young man in northern Russia, this journalist tried to understand...
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Published in: oDRHow to address human rights challenges in Europe’s grey zones
Across Europe, unrecognised states and conflict zones are home to impunity. A new report holds important...
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Published in: oDR“A strike isn’t a goal in itself”: defending labour rights in Ukraine’s gig economy
Recent signs of mobilisation by precarious workers in Ukraine have refocused public attention on labour rights. But...
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Published in: oDRWhy Russia should learn to love the rules-based international order
As a middling power, Russia could benefit from siding with international institutions, instead of disregarding them.
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Published in: oDRAn anatomy of defeat: what happened at the Moscow city elections
In Moscow, the people came to the ballot box and broke the back-room agreements of the elite.
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Published in: oDRSelf-immolation highlights controversy over cultural rights in Russia
A national debate on minority cultural rights is the backdrop to the death of an academic in the Russian republic of...
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Published in: oDRAwakening a new generation of activists in Eurasia
An emerging young, urban population has begun to challenge the lasting legacies of the Soviet era.
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Published in: oDR“Armenia first”: behind the rise of Armenia’s alt-right scene
Armenia’s 2018 revolution may have pushed a kleptocratic regime out of power, but today the country’s conservative...
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Published in: oDRNo return: precarious delivery workers in Ukraine look to Spain for inspiration
From Zaragoza to Kyiv, the transnational fight against precarity in the delivery sector is hotting up.