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Cracking heads open in Ukraine: a neurosurgeon’s story. Part 3, Henry Marsh openDemocracy - Latest articles from openDemocracy Cracking heads open in Ukraine: a neurosurgeon’s story. Part 3, Henry Marsh Cracking heads open in Ukraine: a neurosurgeon’s story. Part 2, Henry Marsh Beyond “liddism”: towards real global security, Paul Rogers Forward to the Past! Charlie Leadbeater and Philip Blond lead the way, William Davies Don't mention the bombings, Sam Greene Boycott of Burmese elections draws criticism. , Josephine Whitaker Deliberative democracy: Setting the people free?, John Jackson Cracking heads open in Ukraine: a neurosurgeon’s story. Part 3, Henry Marsh Today, eighteen years after my first visit to Ukraine, Igor is one of the most successful and famous neurosurgeons in the country, practising modern neurosurgery which is directly equivalent to what is available in the West. The journey has not... Read more » Cracking heads open in Ukraine: a neurosurgeon’s story. Part 2, Henry Marsh I first went to Kiev in the winter of 1992, a few months after the collapse of the Soviet Union. That trip came about almost by accident. An English businessman was hoping to sell medical equipment in Ukraine. There was a famous... Read more » Beyond “liddism”: towards real global security, Paul Rogers The strategic nuclear-arms treaty agreed between the United States and Russia on 26 March 2010 entails substantial and welcome cuts in the two countries’ nuclear arsenals, and leaves the way open for further reductions before Barack Obama’s... Read more » Forward to the Past! Charlie Leadbeater and Philip Blond lead the way, William Davies In 1944, Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation was published, reviewing the wreckage of the nineteenth century liberal economic fantasy. The rise and fall of the liberal utopia had occurred over many decades, and occurred at a number of... Read more » Don't mention the bombings, Sam Greene Having vowed to flush Russia’s terrorists out of the outhouse 11 years ago, Vladimir Putin is now promising to “scrape them off the bottom of the sewer”. But this is no longer 1999: Russia has changed (and Putin has changed it). After more... Read more » Boycott of Burmese elections draws criticism. , Josephine Whitaker Sharp divisions have emerged among supporters of Burma’s National League for Democracy (NLD) in the wake of its decision to boycott parliamentary elections scheduled later this year. The NLD’s decision about whether to register under... Read more » Deliberative democracy: Setting the people free?, John Jackson The Ministry of Justice has done something extremely useful! It has demonstrated that, given a fair wind, deliberative democracy could become a valuable addition to our representative democracy with liberating consequences for individuals and... Read more »