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Published in: 50.50Development and religion: ambivalent policy, grounded practice
Development policy seems to swing between a Marmite-style love-it-or-hate-it approach to religion. Yet practice on...
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Published in: oDRIs Ukraine heading East?
On the eve of an EU-Ukraine summit on December 19, Ukraine’s relations with Brussels are deteriorating. EU officials...
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Published in: HomeChinese companies under scrutiny in Zimbabwe
Ten years into the Look East policy, Zimbabwe is showing itself to be a not-so-satisfied customer of Chinese investment.
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Published in: openEconomyThis crisis is no excuse for technocratic government
In the author's prescient May 2010 article there is the central observation that we are seeing a fundamental...
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Published in: oDRRussian economy: trying to please people doesn’t help
20 years ago there was all to play for: the USSR was defunct and Russia was embarking on a bright future. But the...
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Published in: oDRPrivatisation, but no private property
Privatisation was one of the beacon words of Yeltsin’s presidency, but, with the possible exception of housing,...
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Published in: openSecurityArmed conflict, land grabs and big business: Colombia’s deadly pact
The recent assassination of Colombian marxist insurgent group leader Alfonso Cano has been hailed internationally as...
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Published in: oDRIs corruption in Russia's DNA?
It is difficult to think back to a time when corruption was not endemic in Russia. It is now crippling the country,...
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Published in: oDRThe Russian banking system: between the market and the state
For the last 20 years Russian attitudes to banks have been ambivalent. From no trust at all to feverish delight at...
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Published in: oDRRussian reforms, twenty years on
Dmitry Travin presents a new week-long series on openDemocracy Russia
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Published in: oDRKudrin’s warning
Russia's ruling tandem have hung their economic policy high up on a mast: oil prices will hold, they say … and,...
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Published in: oDRBankruptcy and privatisation: the end of Lukashenka’s Belarus?
A failed economic model and falling transit subsidies from Russia have propelled the Belarusian economy to the...
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Published in: HomeThe road to Europe: the need for trans-European politics
The EU's crisis has been framed as an economic one, with the self-interest of individuals in nation states pitted...
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Published in: oDREpilogue: a minister falls
The resignation of Russia's finance minister Aleksey Kudrin is a much more significant event than the Putin-Medvedev...
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Published in: openEconomyWhy the Euro is a force of political centralisation
This article was published 11 years ago in the Salisbury Review - then a small right-wing magazine edited by oD...
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Published in: HomeKarachi: reading between the lines
Kinship ties are crucial in Pakistan, not only for gaining political legitimacy but for maintaining power through...
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Published in: oDRMaking waves: the only way to improve Russia’s river fleet
The shock of the recent steamer tragedy on the Volga and the huge loss of life all too quickly moved off the front...
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Published in: oDRThe crisis of Russian modernisation
Increasingly, the idea of being a modern Russian means to be detached from Russia itself. The problem has long,...
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Published in: oDRUkraine oil rig deal: fat cats getting fatter?
President Yanukovych makes a show of trying to root out corruption, but a recent government deal to buy an oil rig,...
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Published in: oDRSpringtime for Lukashenka?
Effective opposition in Belarus has traditionally been limited by a limited sense of nationhood, a deeply controlled...