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11 Jun 2022 7 minute read

Cash-strapped but strategically important, Tajikistan is undergoing rapid change with its future increasingly being shaped...

7 Mar 2022 7 minute read

Richard Swift explores why the Cold War's old certainties can no longer hold.

4 Mar 2022 5 minute read

Tina Burrett speaks to the people taking to the streets of Russia to protest the invasion...

25 Feb 2022 4 minute read

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine requires urgent action. Vanessa Baird asks what we can do.

16 Aug 2021 2 minute read

Putin piles on the political pressure in Russia.

9 Aug 2021 7 minute read

Regional media is holding its own against the ‘official version’ put out by the nationals. Could it be a harbinger for...

25 Mar 2019 4 minute read

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Putin’s critics have labelled him a ‘kleptocratic dictator’ and drawn comparisons with Hitler. Russia expert Mark...

8 Aug 2018 5 minute read

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Young people discovering their sexuality have been denied access to information or acceptance since the ‘gay propaganda’ law...

20 Jul 2018 5 minute read

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Spiralling rates of the diseases have punitive policies at their root. Madeline Roache reports.

17 Jul 2018 6 minute read

This article is almost four years old.

In tiny Abkhazia, outcast from the world stage, football is a source of hope. Robert O’Connor reports.