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Angered by the avoidable tragic factory collapse at Rana Plaza, Bangladesh, Mari Marcel Thekaekara looks at how we’ve regressed on employment.…

By cutting the fuel subsidy the Nigerian government has snatched away the main benefit to the people from the country's oil wealth, says Sokari Ekine.…

Allegations of ballot stuffing in this year’s Duma elections have sparked the biggest protests in Russia in almost two decades…

In search of Soviet nostalgia, Giedre Steikunaite finds a chaos of memories, failed dreams and a nagging longing for a simpler world.…

Independent but still ‘brotherly republics’? Maybe not, says Giedre Steikunaite.…

Twenty years ago, the failed coup d’état marked the beginning of the end for the USSR…

As his country goes into economic freefall, Belarus’s president plans to trade prisoners – including journalist Andrzej Poczobut – for cash.…

Mari Marcel Thekaekara says that a few centuries from now, if civilization as we know it still exists, history will judge us harshly…

Stefan Simanowitz assesses prospects for a peaceful partition of Sudan and the importance of international recognition.…

Giedre Steikunaite is a freelance writer and active observer currently based in London…