A new documentary from Russia will have its UK premiere at the closing gala of Open City Docs in London (17-22 June 2014).
South Ossetians may yearn for union with Russia, but the complicated political realities of the South Caucasus make this an unlikely prospect.
What the revolutionary class are experiencing in Egypt now is only the initiation of what thousands of children on our streets, boys and girls experience.
In Ukraine, businessmen are pressured to give financial and political support to the authorities or to testify against political opponents.
Many people will be affected by the results of the Euro-elections in Greece and across the continent—including those fetching up at its borders.
In Samara, LGBT people are seen as paedophiles. They face aggressive homophobia, harassment, and public incomprehension.
A Shanghai worker imprisoned following the Tiananmen events remains haunted by her experience, finds Kerry Brown.
The heroes of the democracy movement were crushed in 1989. That taught Chinese people an indelible lesson, says the pioneering democracy campaigner, Wei Jingsheng.
In the twenty-five years since the Tiananmen Square massacre, China’s party-state appears to have stabilised its rule by instrumental middle-class support secured for material gain. The next twenty-five years may not, however, be so certain.
At the weekend police fired teargas at demonstrators in Istanbul, attempting to enter Taksim Square to mark the anniversary of the Gezi Park protests—another battle in the struggle for rights and freedoms in Turkey
If madness is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome, the authors of Thailand’s twelfth coup since the absolute monarchy have yet to learn from Einstein’s aphorism.
The Russian economy is perhaps already in recession, certainly in decline. This could be contagious because a slowdown in Russia will also slow down its neighbours.
