Into the Future

An interview with Anna POLITKOVSKAYA (2005) Index on Censorship took advantage of the presence of Russian — and other one-time … More

Anna Politkovskaya (1958-2006)

The Russian investigative journalist, who received an ovation at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2005, was shot dead in … More

In spring this year [1992] I returned from 15 months’ living in Moscow, where I set up the first office … More

Tajikistan has had some important dates for its diary since it supported the US-led coalition fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan … More

With the rights activist (and astrophysicist) in the early 1980s, at a human rights gathering, in Portugal perhaps. Marjorie wrote … More

Two boys stand out of my junior school photograph. One was small, wiry and dry. He was learning to play … More

“I do not like rolled up manuscripts. Others are laden with the limnent of time, Like an archangel’s trumpet”. 1 … More

St. Andrews was established in 1410. It comes as a surprise to realise that it is a place without roots … More

Dissident under the slogan “For Your Freedom and Ours”. “The glory of Soviet science is talked of loudly and at … More

Turkmenistan has been called the Zimbabwe of Central Asia: it is a potentially rich, small country with a very poor … More

Those tired of Tony Blair’s Long Goodbye should feel sorry for Uzbekistan. President Islam Karimov’s second term of office ended … More

— It was a big mistake. The next morning I went to the park to clear my head, and I … More

Sergei AVERINTSEV (1937-2004) The challenge of how to “overcome” a totalitarian past should face every nation with experience of one … More

No heart is more merciful than the tsar’s, the old saying goes. Russian President Vladimir Putin stood that proverb on … More

Someone once said that we judge ourselves by our intentions and other people by their actions. Other people tend to … More