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As Russia goes to the polls today in a presidential election fraught with tension, Rowan Emslie considers the Kremlin’s decision to ban the use of toys in political protest.
In an attempt to baffle their detractors with a display of Daily Mail worthy self-parody, the Russian authorities recently banned toys from ‘protesting’ on the grounds that they are not citizens and, therefore, do not have the rights of citizens. The protests took place in the Siberian city of Barnaul in response to reported corruption and electoral fraud.
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In the aftermath of Muammar Gadaffi’s death, Josephine Forster considers a disturbing pre-occupation with the gory details of death. Josephine is a freelance journalist studying MA Newspaper Journalism at City University.
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In the second part of DiA’s exclusive coverage of International Women’s Day, Cardiff University Journalism students Sara Maranon and Sandhya Kannan investigate how the revolution in Egypt is transforming the role of women within society. They spoke with Aya Faissal Abdel Dayem and Islam Sharaf, both of whom work for the Association for the Development and Enhancement of Women, an NGO based in Cairo.
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