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
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
Krokodil sinks teeth into persecuted Georgian drug community Injectable home-made drug is savaging heroin-starved addicts Michael Bird | 02 July 2014
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
Paralyzed by home-made alternative to heroin Drug users face disability due to injecting dye from kids' chemistry sets Michael Bird | 19 November 2013
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
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