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War Turns Odesa’s Black Sea Green

Once a sanctuary for Odesa locals, Lanzheron Beach is now suffering the ecological impacts a year after the Kakhovka dam catastrophe

Anna Nemtsova | 26 June 2024
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Peace Before Empire

The plague of nostalgia for Russia’s lost empire continues to destroy Ukraine. But not all former colonisers cause so much suffering. Anna Nemtsova was in Portugal for the 50th anniversary …

Anna Nemtsova | 17 June 2024
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Krokodil sinks teeth into persecuted Georgian drug community

Injectable home-made drug is savaging heroin-starved addicts

Michael Bird | 02 July 2014
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How Hare Krishna Saved Me from Drugs in Tiraspol

Breaking free of crime and addiction needed a cocktail of God and Freud for ex-fighter Yuri

Michael Bird | 17 December 2013
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Paralyzed by home-made alternative to heroin

Drug users face disability due to injecting dye from kids' chemistry sets

Michael Bird | 19 November 2013
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Smack in the USSR: how injecting drugs in the Soviet Union was socializing

The journey of one Georgian woman through three decades of opiate abuse

Michael Bird | 12 November 2013
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Deadly Moldovan drug provokes addicts to lose jaws

Fatal intoxicant extracted from anti-flu tablets targets facial bones of users

Michael Bird | 30 October 2013
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