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15.01.2016

 Out in the cold

  In December last year I visited Donetsk region in Ukraine once again (the towns of Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and Dzerzhinsk) in order to see how half a year of war had changed the life of the local population, especially the…

Since the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) attitudes towards people with HIV both on the part of the state authorities and the general public in many countries of the world has been changing – from complete rejection, stigmatization…

  Russian State Duma has hastily passed a new law abolishing obligatory execution of rulings passed by international legal institutions, stating that the Russian Constitutional Court and the president of the Russian Federation are now to decide whether Russian citizens…

Piotr Pavlensky is in detention, but his cause lives on. That is exactly how he sees his role in art – all of his actions are strictly individual and even create an impression of complete loneliness, but in spite of…

Contrary to a popular belief that gender equality supposedly had been established long time ago and forever, women’s rights continue to be violated in many countries throughout the world, Russia being one of them. On October 26, 2015, the UN…

As Russians observe what is happening in Europe from afar, one can find rather few opinions on the migration crisis which are sympathetic to the refugees, as different comments, rather malicious and border on panic (“Europe is dying – and…