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Pipss.org is an online international social sciences journal devoted to the armed forces and power institutions of post-Soviet societies. The journal's focus is the comparative and multi-disciplinary study of the structures and forces that make up the security systems, administrations and institutions employing armed personnel in all the Republics of the Former Soviet Union (FSU).

Latest issue
Issue 9 | 2009
NGOs and Power Ministries in Russia

• Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski
  NGOs and the Power Ministries in Russia: from Resistance to Cooperation? [Full text]

• NGOs and Power Ministries in Russia - Conversations

  • The Russian Point of View

    • Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski
      “We are perceived as a foreign, ‘western’ element by Russian society” - Interview with Liudmila Alpern, Center for Prison Reform, Moscow, 2 October 2008 [Full text]
    • Eva Bertrand
       « Les militaires ne savent plus comment travailler sans les Comités de mères de soldats » [The military do not know how to work without the Soldiers’ Mothers Committees anymore ]- Interview with Valentina Melnikova, Union Soldiers’ Mothers Committees in Russia, Moscou, le 30 avril 2008 (in French / Russian version in Annex) [Full text]
    • FrançoiseDaucé
      “A way to defend people is to build informal ties with power institutions” - Interview with Ashot Airapetian, president of the Center for Interethnic Cooperation, Moscow, 3 June 2008 (in Russian) [Full text]
    • Gilles Favarel-Garrigues and Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski
      “Two conditions for a successful partnership: high-levels of NGO professionalism and the readiness of local and regional administrations to find new forms of partnership” - Interview with Asmik Novikova, Demos Centre, Moscow, 6 March and 12 October 2008 [Full text]
    • Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski
      “We make precedents, pushing the whole system and giving hope to society” – E-mail interview with Pavel Chikov, Agora Association, 7 July 2008 [Full text]

  • A Foreign Point of View

    • Anne Le Huérou and Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski
      « Il y a une demande des structures d’État à continuer de travailler avec Caritas » [There is a demand from State bodies to continue to work with Caritas] - Interview with Anouk Coqblin, Program Officer at the Emergency Desk, Secours Catholique Caritas France, Paris, 20 November 2008 (in French) [Full text]

• NGOs and Power Ministries in Russia - Book Reviews (4 titles)

  • Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski
    Demos Center, Militsiia mezhdu Rossiei i Chechnei. Veterany konflikta v rossiiskom obshchestve [Full text]
    Moskva, Demos, 2007, 304 c.
  • Anne Le Huérou
    TatyanaLokshina (Dir.), Chechnya. Zhizn’ navoine [Full text]
    Tsentr sodeistviia provedeniiu issledovanii grazhdanskogo obshchestva Demos, 2007, 248 pages
  • Михаил Рощин / Mikhail Roshchin
    Ильдар Исангулов, У последней черты. Документы и материалы о деятельности мафии в Республике Башкортостан / Il’darIsangulov, Uposledneicherty. Dokumentyimaterialyodeiatel’nostimafiivRespublikeBashkortostan [Full text]
    Москва, Гайнуллин, 2006, 248 стр / Moskva, Gainullin, 2006, 248 s.
  • Vahan Galoumian
    Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, Foreign Funding: Foreign Assistance and NGO Development in Russia [Full text]
    Standford, Standford University Press, 2006, 296 pages

• Book Reviews - General (4 titles)

  • Mark Edele
    Elena Seniavskaia, Protivniki Rossii v voinakh XX veka. Evoliutsiia « obraza vraga » v soznanii armii i obshchestva [Full text]
    Moskva, ROSSPEN, 2006, 287 s.
  • Isabelle Facon
    Dale Herspring, The Kremlin and the High Command. Presidential Impact on the Russian Military from Gorbachev to Putin [Full text]
    Lawrence, University Press of Kansas, 2006, 242 pages
  • Dale R. Herspring
    Natalia Danilova, Armiia i Obshchestvo : Printsipy Vzaimodeistviia [Full text]
    Sankt-Petersburg, Norma, 2007, 343 s.
  • Louise Shelley
    Gilles Favarel-Garrigues, La police des moeurs économiques de l’URSS à la Russie (1965-1995) [Full text]
    Paris, CNRS Editions, 2007, 320 pages

• Tribute to Stanislav Markelov

  • Aude Merlin
    Le pouvoir de la loi contre la loi du pouvoir – Entretien avec Stanislav Markelov, avocat, Moscou, 3 juin 2008 (in French) [Full text]
  • Aude Merlin
    The power of law versus the law of power - Interview with Stanislav Markelov, Lawyer, Moscow, 3 June 2008 [Full text]