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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: 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: 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: 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: oDR: OpinionWhy does Russia need a new “foreign agent” law?
Russia’s parliament has passed a law that will allow individual citizens to be labelled “foreign agents”. What...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe Battle of Seattle: 20 years later, it's time for a revival
On this 20th anniversary of the Battle of Seattle, the struggle against globalized capital continues.
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Published in: ourEconomy"The UN is being turned into a public-private partnership": An interview with Harris Gleckman
Lynn Fries speaks to Harris Gleckman about the growing corporate influence over our global governance system.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Post-democracy: there's plenty familiar about what is happening in Bulgaria
Post-democracy is the latest wave of post-communist transformation – the result of state capture and the alienation...
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Published in: hriBRICS countries to build digital sovereignty
The push towards digital sovereignty is frequently criticized as a Trojan horse for authoritarian measures. It's...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionVladimir Bukovsky, the hooligan at odds with both Russia and the West
Why Soviet dissident, writer and campaigner Vladimir Bukovsky (1942-2019) was a global politician, and why his...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The 1989 revolutions and the Peace Movement
“We saw ourselves as an anti-Cold War movement and not just an anti-nuclear movement. We wanted to end the division...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The fragile lightness of freedom: the Berlin Wall, thirty years on
What the fall of the Wall and the last thirty years should have taught us is that without freedom there is no...
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Published in: ourEconomyourVoices Episode 1: Whose data? Our data!
In the first episode of ourVoices we explore the rise of big tech, and imagine a future where our data is used to...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationNumber 10 abused its power by demanding cover-up of donors and friends of Boris in report on Russian influence
Sources close to the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee say that only a threat to national security...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationRevealed: Russian donors have stepped up Tory funding
As Johnson accused of ‘cover-up’ over Kremlin interference, major new Russian donations to Conservatives revealed –...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The hidden history of a Jewish family in Odessa
The Ephrussis’ Russian story was a classic tale of early modern capitalists – but well before their peers.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe could do more to stop the Turkish invasion of Rojava, but states fear a democratic revolution
An interview with Ercan Ayboga on Turkey’s attack, Rojava’s direct democracy, and the international reaction.
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Published in: ourEconomyImpoverished economics? Unpacking the economics Nobel Prize
When the world is facing large systemic crises, why is the economics profession celebrating small technical fixes?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Balkans Brexit fallout
Some may wish the EU would simply honour its earlier commitment to integrate the Balkans region, but the time for...