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8 Aug 2018 5 minute read

Russian LGBT activists battle teenage isolation

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

War on drugs failing: Activists of All-Ukrainian Network of People Living With HIV/AIDS, non-governmental group, are seen self handcuffed to bed during news conference at Lavra clinic, Kiev.

20 Jul 2018 5 minute read

Ukraine’s war on drugs drives HIV epidemic

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

Dinamo Sukhumi’s stadium under construction.

17 Jul 2018 6 minute read

Where football meets politics

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

Liz McDaid and Makoma Lekalakaka in front of the country’s only nuclear power station – Koeberg.

23 Apr 2018 4 minute read

The Women Who Stopped the Nuclear Deal

Makoma Lekalakala and Liz McDaid won the Goldman Environmental Prize for stopping a secret nuclear deal...

The leaders of Russia and Hungary, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán

30 Apr 2018 5 minute read

Is Hungary mimicking Putin’s authoritarianism?

Has Putin exported ‘managed democracy’ to Hungary? Madeline Roache examines Orbán’s...

Russian president Vladimir Putin during a meeting with Russia Today’s leadership.

28 Mar 2018 5 minute read

Banning Russia Today would solve nothing

This will give Putin another excuse for a media crackdown, argues Madeline Roache.

12 Mar 2018 4 minute read

History repeats itself in Crimea

In 1944, Stalin declared the Tatars 'traitors'. Now Putin calls them ‘extremists’. Madeline Roache reports...

1 Mar 2018 2 minute read

Life after Putin

The struggle to define Russia’s future is under way but those hoping for a more progressive post-Putin...

6 Nov 2017 4 minute read

What to do about North Korea, Mr Trump

This crisis has a solution, writes Vanessa Baird, as Donald Trump visits Asia.

20 Jul 2017 6 minute read

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‘Foreign agents’ confound Putin

Moscow’s unlicensed human rights champions refuse to be intimidated. Barney Cullum reports.

1 May 2017 7 minute read

This article is more than one year old.

Why are there still British military bases in Cyprus?

The island may want to determine its own future, but Britain and the US have other ideas. Darren Loucaides...

26 Sep 2016 4 minute read

This article is almost two years old.

For the European development bank, democracy is an afterthought

Almost one in four euros lent by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in 2015 went to authoritarian countries...

1 Sep 2016 5 minute read

This article is more than two years old.

Taking matters into their own hands

Labour rights in post-socialist countries such as Russia, China and Vietnam are being fought for from outside, not within,...

31 May 2016 5 minute read

This article is more than two years old.

From Russia, with blood: the impact of coal exports to Britain

The environmental and human costs are high, writes Vladimir Slivyak.

26 May 2016 3 minute read

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Anti-corruption drive or political witch-hunt?

The case of Sri Lanka’s former ambassador to Russia, accused of arms smuggling, might suggest the latter, says Lasanda...

23 Nov 2015 3 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

How to defend the United Nations?

After weathering decades of diplomatic storms, many wonder if the international organization can still be reformed, writes...

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