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Reporting from Standpoint correspondents in Rome, Kiev, New York, the Caucasus and elsewhere. Writing from the place, by someone who went.

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Bahrain: Women Drivers Welcome Here

'Hadija laughs as she describes how Saudi women, once over the bridge connecting Saudi Arabia to Bahrain, elbow their husbands out of the driving seat to take command of the wheel.'

June 22, 2010

Dispatches·Faith·Gender·Islam·Middle East·Social Affairs

Bajaur: A Talk with the Taliban

‘At last, a familiar sight: we drive past a Johnson & Johnson factory. “This place can’t be that bad,” I tell myself. “Daniel Pearl was executed near here,” the driver says unprompted.

May 21, 2010

Afghanistan·Dispatches·War on Terror

Oslo: Signing OFF on Human Rights

The alternative human rights conference highlights causes that are too often ignored or forgotten by organisations like Amnesty International

May 21, 2010

Dispatches·Global Governance·Human Rights

Bishkek: Downfall of a Dictator

Whilst travelling through Kyrgyzstan, our correspondent found himself witness to a brutal and bloodsoaked coup

April 26, 2010

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Bishkek: Bloodsoaked Revolution

Our correspondent provides an eyewitness account of the bloody and brutal coup in Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday 7th April

April 8, 2010

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Kaliningrad: Russia’s Outpost in Europe’s Heart

"It is almost impossible to believe this misery was once a beautiful German city known as Königsberg, where Kant thought, Herder wrote and Prussia began"

March 19, 2010

Dispatches·Europe·Russia

Havana: The Castros Will Not Be Absolved

"Cuba is decaying at a scandalous pace, physically and morally. The social capital of civil values and mutual trust has evaporated and hatred is taking hold"

March 19, 2010

Communism·Dispatches·Latin America·Welfare State

Mogadishu: Armageddon on Steroids

‘The fighting in Somalia can no longer be dismissed as an obscure domestic struggle in an unimportant country of no wider relevance to the world. The crackle of machinegun fire in Mogadishu,

February 18, 2010

Africa·Dispatches·War on Terror

Rio’s Heart of Darkness

The World cup in 2014 and the 2016 Olympics are an incentive and an opportunity to address inequality and drug-related violence in Rio de Janeiro. Will the state try to heal the

February 18, 2010

Dispatches·Latin America

Siberia: In Search of the Gulag

‘When I finally reached Magadan, I hunted for days for a survivor. "I'm sorry, they are all dead," was the refrain. With male life-expectancy in Russia a mere 58, I should not

December 14, 2009

Dispatches·History·Russia

Montana: Home From Home on the Range

‘I look around the dimly-lit bar and notice how the hard-drinking clientele watches suspicious newcomers like me, with my British-tainted accent and far too many questions. I ask another one: “Do the

November 19, 2009

Agriculture·Dispatches·North America

Connecticut: My Battle Against Google

‘I cursed and gaped. I closed and reopened the web site and there it all was again, three years of work, plus debt and lack of medical care and some rather bizarre

October 22, 2009

Dispatches·Literature·Technology

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