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Monthly Archive for: "February, 2021"
 Lost in Time: reviewing Russia in Recipes and Lore by Darra Goldstein

Lost in Time: reviewing Russia in Recipes and Lore by Darra Goldstein

February 28, 2021

Despite spending a lot of time in Russia, I don’t like Russian food. For me, it has always been about buckwheat, mayonnaise covered “salads”, and rye bread. While in Russia, I preferred eating [...]

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 Religious Minorities and Covid-19 in Georgia: challenges for equal treatment

Religious Minorities and Covid-19 in Georgia: challenges for equal treatment

February 26, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a great challenge for Georgia, not only in terms of economic issues or the sustainability of the health care system but also in terms of proving that all peaceful [...]

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 Debunking Victimhood: short stories of Pomak uprisings in communist Bulgaria 

Debunking Victimhood: short stories of Pomak uprisings in communist Bulgaria 

February 24, 2021

February 1 marked the anniversary of the national remembrance of the victims of Communism in Bulgaria. On this date in 1945, the People’s Court handed down death penalties to a large number of [...]

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 A Palace for Putin: Navalny’s most daring move yet?

A Palace for Putin: Navalny’s most daring move yet?

February 22, 2021

A Palace for Putin, Alexei Navalny’s latest anti-corruption video, has taken the internet by storm, much to the grievance of Vladimir Putin. On January 19, the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) [...]

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 Monarchy…Unemployed?: The curious case of former ruling houses in the Balkans

Monarchy…Unemployed?: The curious case of former ruling houses in the Balkans

February 19, 2021

‘The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left—the King of England, the King of Spades, the King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.’ So King Farouk of [...]

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 Revolutionary Ideals in Fiction: a review of Alexandra Kollontai’s Love of Worker Bees

Revolutionary Ideals in Fiction: a review of Alexandra Kollontai’s Love of Worker Bees

February 17, 2021

Alexandra Kollontai was one of the earlier Bolsheviks, joining the party already in 1915 and as one of the few Old Bolsheviks to survive Stalin’s purges, she was a writer not only of political [...]

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 Hidden Rainbow: the persecution of Chechnya’s LGBT+ community

Hidden Rainbow: the persecution of Chechnya’s LGBT+ community

February 15, 2021

Chechnya regularly sparks discussion in the media, from the rise of controversial leader Ramzan Kadyrov, through enforcement of the Islamic dress code on Chechen women, to the Chechen death [...]

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 Water Shortages and Recurrent Drought: Crimea after 2014

Water Shortages and Recurrent Drought: Crimea after 2014

February 12, 2021

Crimea is drying up, and it has everything to do with political arm-wrestling between Russia and Ukraine. Almost seven years after the seizure of Crimea by the Russian Federation, the region is [...]

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 The Return to Romanticism: interview with Crimean Tatar folk artist Mamut Churlu

The Return to Romanticism: interview with Crimean Tatar folk artist Mamut Churlu

February 10, 2021

Mamut Churlu is part of the mass return of Tatar repatriates to the Crimean Peninsula at the fall of the Soviet Union. Churlu worked for years in Uzbekistan and Russia on researching folk art [...]

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 ‘We Can’t Be Afraid Anymore’ – artists behind the frontline in Belarus

‘We Can’t Be Afraid Anymore’ – artists behind the frontline in Belarus

February 8, 2021

Whilst the world watches the Capitol with relief, the battle to assert democracy in Belarus wages on. Efforts to depose ‘Europe’s last dictator’ Alexander Lukashenko began last May, and are now [...]

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