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24 April 2021 will mark the 106th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. To this day, Turkey vehemently denies any responsibility in the mass killing of its Armenian and other minority populations [...]

“Not only is Manizha not Russian, but she’s not even a person, she’s… salt!” declared the professor, as he revealed the result of an experiment conducted on the pop star’s skeleton. The research [...]

Katherine Leung reviews the memoir of a refugee. My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinović.

Contrary to Western perceptions, queer culture in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg is thriving. There are gay clubs open around the cities, people feel more confident than ever to hold hands with [...]

Who is Alexei Navalny? What an odd question, you might think. After all, the past eight months of the man’s life have been meticulously covered by a multitude of media outlets around the globe. [...]

Tensions are rising in Kazakhstan over China's political and economic influence in the country and the continued detention of ethnic Kazakhs in China's Xinjiang province.

Nicholas Morgan on rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine. Will the frozen conflict in Donbas turn hot in the coming months?

In December, Maia Sandu became the new president of Moldova. Her pro-EU stance might help bring the country closer to the EU, at the same time, the frozen conflict with de facto independent [...]

For the Stepanakert based football team Lernayin Artsakh, last years season was abruptly interrupted by the Nagorno-Karabakh war. For 44 days, the team's players had to change their workout [...]

Galina Rymbu’s poems employ history as a discursive tool to understand the present—stories of revolution, movement in time and space, life, and livelihood emerge. Review by Katherine Leung.