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Our public opinion has difficulty in reacting to several news topics at once. This was undoubtedly taken into account by our authorities, when they set the date of 12 July for making public the verdict handed down to Andrei Erofeev and Yuri... Spirit, hope, money and a dose of patriarchy, Jenny Morgan and Jessica Horn The rapid expansion of Pentecostal and other charismatic Christian churches in post-independence Africa presents a paradox for women’s position in society – women regularly make up between two-thirds and three-quarters of church congregations,... Ukraine: bulldozing the Orange building, Anna Babinets The first thing Viktor Yushchenko did on becoming Ukrainian president was to change the plaque on the building where he would be working for the next five years. During Leonid Kuchma’s time the service working for the head of state had been called... Saving Sakineh, Anonymous In the west, those tragedies occasionally flicker across our front pages or perform a brief morbid dance on our television screens. BP spill: what the locals are doing, Jim Gabour The president of one of the parishes (Louisiana’s counties) most affected by the BP spill was guest of honor at a fund-raiser in New Orleans’ Bywater neighborhood on the American 4th of July holiday. Billy Nungesser of Plaquemines was invited... Reduce and equalise? Why electoral geography matters , Stuart Wilks-Heeg Whether or not we end up voting under a different electoral system at the 2015 General Election, it looks almost certain that most of us will be voting in different constituencies. The Parliamentary Reform Bill, which will make provisions for the... Poetry in pictures: a film about Joseph Brodsky, Natalia Rulyova Andrei Khrzhanovskii did not intend his latest film A Room and Half to be a biopic about the Russian Nobel Prize winner poet Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996). The film is a sensitive cinematic interpretation of Brodsky’s texts and, in particular, the... New fears of xenophobia send migrants fleeing in South Africa, Josephine Whitaker Rumours of forthcoming xenophobic attacks have sent a wave of foreign migrant workers fleeing from Cape Town to rural areas in South Africa, or back to their home countries, according to reports emerging as the World Cup draws to a close. A... Fundraising Coordinator, openDemocracy Fundraising Coordinator - openDemocracy.net openDemocracy, the leading online current affairs website dedicated to debates on human rights and democracy, is seeking an experienced fundraising professional to manage its relations with readers and... | ||
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