April 2018
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Erdoğan tries to fix his election
Akram Belkaïd
, April 2018
Turkey’s president has made an alliance with the ultranationalist far-right MHP, ahead of the next elections. He can still count on his AKP supporters but other voters are slipping away.
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Licence to kill
Serge Halimi
, April 2018
British police say their investigation into the poisoning of former Russian army colonel Sergei Skripal in Salisbury may take many months, yet prime minister Theresa May has already identified the guilty (...)
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Graft that might not be there
Benjamin Cunningham
, April 2018
In central and eastern Europe, perceptions of corruption can be greater than reality. In western Europe, the opposite is true.
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Chechnya’s very long state of emergency
Anne Le Huérou
&
Aude Merlin
, April 2018
Ramzan Kadyrov’s Chechnya is almost a colony of Russia, financially supported by, and subservient to it. But Kadyrov also wants to be spokesman for all the federation’s (...)
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April
2018
… can
Five Stars
govern
Italy
?
Turkey special report
: state of fear;
Erdoğan
fixes his rule; how corrupt is
eastern Europe? Chechnya
’s long emergency;
Fukushima
seven years on;
Pachamama
,
Ecuador
’s Earth Mother;
Martin Luther King
remembered; the
Russians
are coming, on a TV near you …
Can Five Stars govern Italy?
Luca Manucci
, April 2018
It’s now the country’s biggest single political movement, with a surge of online participation (...)
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It’s about Russia, not God
Anaïs Llobet
, April 2018
Putin and his government have built a mutually beneficial relationship with the resurgent Orthodox Church, a key element of the country’s new (...)
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Cossacks’ faith as identity
A. L.
, April 2018
The Cossacks — drawn from mainly Slavic populations living along the Dnieper (in present-day Ukraine) and between the Don and Volga (...)
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Japan’s forever tainted land
Philippe Pataud Célérier
, April 2018
Seven years after the tsunami that swept northeast Japan, towns are being rebuilt. But will their inhabitants return, and should they? Fukushima’s toxic legacy will last for (...)
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Turkish state of fear
Pierre Puchot
, April 2018
President Erdoğan’s pursuit of Fethullah Gülen’s supporters has imprisoned thousands and left many collateral victims frightened for their livelihoods, and their lives. The rule of law has been (...)
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In the name of the Mother
Maëlle Mariette
, April 2018
Pachamama, the Amerindian Earth Mother, sells tourism to affluent westerners and is used by environmentalists to stop oil and mineral extraction. Indigenous peoples see the balance between tradition and (...)
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Martin Luther King fifty years on
Sylvie Laurent
, April 2018
The great radical socialist, who wanted so much more than civil rights equality, has been rewritten as a US founding father, a respectable legend (...)
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Maxime Robin on the new drugs ‘100 times stronger than heroin’
14 February 2018
In this month’s podcast, Maxime Robin discusses how America’s addiction to powerful painkillers led to an epidemic of synthetic opioid overdoses. We also hear from an Ohio county (...)
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Chechnya’s very long state of emergency
A. L. H.
&
A. M.
, 29 March 2018
Ramzan Kadyrov’s Chechnya is almost a colony of Russia, financially supported by, and subservient to it. But Kadyrov also wants to be spokesman for all the federation’s Muslims. (...)
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Smalltown America gets lethally addicted
Maxime Robin
, 31 January 2018
US doctors were offered a wonder drug for pain relief 20 years ago, and the superstrength, highly addictive opioids are now a national crisis. Lorain County morgue in Ohio records (...)
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Ramaphosa at last in power
Sabine Cessou
, 28 February 2018
Jacob Zuma has been forced out and Cyril Ramaphosa is de facto South African president, but he is faced with recession, falling expectations and a declining vote for the ANC. Cyril (...)
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Fukushima: seven years on
Cécile Marin, April 2018
Japan’s bluefin tuna
Agnès Stienne, January 2018
Iran’s far-reaching Shia networks
Cécile Marin, January 2018
Yemen: humanitarian disaster of Saudi intervention
Cécile Marin, December 2017
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A small victory in Notre-Dame-des-Landes
Ed Emery
, 14 March 2018
There were two riot police in full battle gear, moving backwards down a country lane and guided by two others to stop them falling in the mud. Ahead of them, hedgers and ditchers (...)
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A way forward for Greece and Macedonia?
Michael Goodyear
, 8 March 2018
For over two decades Macedonia has resisted Greek pressure to change its name. But that could now change. There are three reasons. First, Macedonia has a new prime minister, Zoran (...)
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Oxfam under the spotlight
David McDowall
, 26 February 2018
There is certainly a case to be made that the Age of Development will prove more damaging than the Age of Colonialism. But this has little to do with the scandal Oxfam is currently (...)
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Chinese New Year, but where’s the money?
Peter Bengtsen
, 12 February 2018
‘We drove more than 2000 km from Beijing to Shenzhen and handed out over 10,000 questionnaires along the way,’ said Wei Wei, director of the Chinese labour NGO Little Bird, after a (...)
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Podcasts
Gilbert Achcar on the Saudis’ ‘palace coup’
8 March 2018
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26 January 2018
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