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Published in: oDRStanislav Markelov: F*** anarchy, there’s no future anyway
Ten years ago this month, activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov was murdered in Moscow. We publish his reflections on...
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Published in: oDRThe Living Front of Stanislav Markelov
Ten years ago, activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov was murdered in Moscow. His legacy tells us why anti-fascism...
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Published in: oDRStanislav Markelov: the situation of political prisoners in Russia
Since the late 1990s, Russia has seen an increasing rise in the number of terrorism cases - both real and...
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Published in: oDRStanislav Markelov: Times change but the stagnation remains
Ten years ago this month, activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov was murdered in Moscow. We publish his reflections on...
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Published in: oDRHow Russia’s security services try to recruit opposition activists
For Russian law enforcement, informal connections with the opposition can be anything from genuine...
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Published in: oDRAbnormal normality: Alexander Hug about the present and future of Donbas
What role can civil society play in creating the dialogue necessary to end the war in Donbas? RU
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Published in: oDR“Electric shock is our way of doing things”
A number of Russian anti-fascists and anarchists have been tortured by the country's security services. The official...
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Published in: oDR“We don’t need the State Department to hold a revolution”
Russian rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina has been defending the rights of refugees and displaced persons for...
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Published in: oDRGay life in Stalin’s Gulag
The sprawling system of Soviet camps contained many untold stories. I spoke to one of the few historians researching...
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Published in: oDROne year on from a planned “revolution” in Russia, dozens of people are facing jail time
In November 2017, hundreds of Russian citizens were involved in an apparent attempt to organise a new “revolution”...
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Published in: oDRHidden motivations: a brutal attack on a Russian Orthodox Church in Chechnya leaves questions unanswered
Allegations of a cover-up and improper qualification of an organised assault on an Orthodox Church in May this year...
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Published in: oDRHow prisoners in Ukraine’s occupied territories live, work and survive
Prisoners in the so-called “People’s Republics” in Donetsk and Luhansk are facing terrible living and working...
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Published in: oDRMeet Atsamaz Khadikov, the man leading North Ossetia's quiet struggle for a non-toxic environment
Russia's North Caucasus region is famed for its landscapes and nature. But as this local doctor and activist tells...
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Published in: oDR“Down with the tsar”: Russian authorities ban Navalny supporter protest ahead of Putin's inauguration
Organisers across the country have been detained ahead of Vladimir Putin's fourth inauguration as president.
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Published in: oDR“He’s not our tsar”: Navalny supporters prepare for new protest on 5 May
While a Russian state agency attempts to close down the internet, protests in Armenia are resonating in Moscow
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Published in: oDR“You’re a normal guy, you understand everything”: Russian anti-fascist Viktor Filinkov on prison life under threat of torture
In January 2018, Viktor Filinkov was abducted in St Petersburg. When he resurfaced days later, he had been tortured...
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Published in: oDRHow Ingushetia's independent media and opposition were harassed, exiled and murdered out of existence
Ten years ago, the North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia was undergoing a bloody security operation. Today, there’s...
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Published in: oDRAlexey Navalny’s election boycott reveals the symbolic matrix of Russian politics
Boycotting the Russian presidential elections is the logical extension of the opposition politician’s radical street...
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Published in: oDRWhy are some Ukrainian feminists boycotting the International Women’s Day march in Kyiv?
With increased donations and grants to Ukraine from Western countries after Euromaidan, the number of...
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Published in: oDR“The main thing at that moment, in that situation, was to come out alive”
A recent public action in support of tortured anarchists in the city of Chelyabinsk has led to a backlash. Here, two...