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A lesson for Luzhkov? Tatarstan’s Shaimiev shows how to cling on to power, Oleg Pavlov It turns out that the building I live in is the highest point in Kazan. At any rate, if you travel by boat down the Volga towards the city from the direction of Moscow, my building is the first thing that appears on the horizon, and only later do... Read more » The new Labour shadow cabinet, Guy Aitchison The new shadow cabinet was announced by Ed Miliband this morning following some pretty swift decision-making. It's listed here in full. My first reaction is that New Labour is very much alive and well at the top of the party. It doesn't... Read more » Chinese dissident wins nobel peace prize, Oliver Scanlan In a move that may compromise diplomatic ties between Norway and the People’s Republic of China, this year’s Nobel Prize for Peace has been awarded to 54 year-olf Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident currently still incarcerated by the regime. The... Read more » This isn't the end of the far right in India, Samir Jeraj The absence of large scale violence in the wake of the Ayodhya decision has been pronounced evidence that India has seen the back of mass communal violence. However, this is only part of the story. The ideology and movement behind the violence,... Read more » Afghanistan betrayed, Carlo Ungaro The approach of winter has usually indicated a respite in the Afghan conflict. This year, however, there seems to be no pause in the continuous litany of bad news emerging from there. Pakistan, for its part, seems relatively quiet. Perhaps the... Read more » LGB on the BBC, Tom Wicker One of the more interesting issues raised in the report published last week by the BBC on the portrayal of lesbians, gays and bisexuals across its various TV channels and radio stations was the importance of genre in determining an audience’s... Read more » More Recent Articles Pakistan condemns US drone use in north-west , Josephine Whitaker Sergei Magnitsky: a death that failed to die, Oliver Carroll The "well groomed" females of Downing Street - how they afford it, Anthony Barnett International donors must fund female-controlled HIV prevention gel, Chi Mgbako openDemocracy RECOMMENDS The Love That Does Justice
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