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The fall of the Berlin Wall not only anticipated the demise of Communism as a political symbol in the former Eastern Bloc and beyond, but it also meant for millions of citizens the loss of the [...]

Zooming in on the Baltic states, Aliide Naylor’s debut The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front takes the reader on a journey through time and space. Fragmented memories of [...]

This edition of Lossi 36 Weekly was originally sent by email on 23 November 2020. Subscribe to Lossi 36 Weekly here. ⭐️ This week’s special Pro-EU Maia Sandu becomes the first female president of [...]

On 22 October Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal voted through a proposal to further restrict an already strict law on abortion. The ruling to ban the abortion of severe and irreversibly impaired [...]

In a series of interviews conducted in 2019, Solveiga Kaļva talks to people who live in or are somehow connected to Avj, a remote mountain village in the Pamir Region of Tajikistan.  It is a [...]

Czechs have voted in two elections in October – to the regional councils and to the Senate. While both elections are quite unpopular and voter turnout is consistently low, this year’s results of [...]

Following the resolution of an almost three-decades-long surreal name dispute with Greece, North Macedonia’s path to EU membership looked relatively optimistic. Until recently. On 17 November, [...]

Conspiracy Culture: Post-Soviet Paranoia and the Russian Imagination by Keith Livers is part of a recent cast of plucky new texts that blur the boundaries between academia and popular culture [...]

This edition of Lossi 36 Weekly was originally sent by email on 16 November 2020. Subscribe to Lossi 36 Weekly here. ⭐️ This week’s special Russian-brokered peace deal ends fighting in [...]

In a series of interviews conducted in 2019, Solveiga Kaļva talks to people who live in or are somehow connected to Avj, a remote mountain village in the Pamir Region of Tajikistan.  When I first [...]