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Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: Russia invades Ukraine; Serbia struggles to respond; Southern Caucasus de facto states applaud Donbas recognition; mixed reactions [...]

Amanda Sonesson reviews Vladimir Lorchenkov's dark and humorous novel The Good Life Elsewhere.

Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: Electoral surprise in Turkmenistan, Kosovo’s independence celebration, strengthened state control of religion in [...]

As mass protests against the regime broke out in Kazakhstan at the beginning of the year, the first month of 2022 will go down in history as Bloody January. Is this the end of the Nazarbayev era? 

As the spectre of war looms over Europe once again, the European Union is busy battling with its own issues. The European Court of Justice has rejected the Polish and Hungarian challenge to the [...]

At a recent visit to Moscow, Viktor Orbán appeared more eager to seek help from Putin than deliver it to his country’s allies in NATO and the EU, writes Nicholas Morgan.

"The more limits are placed on comedy and other cultural venues, the more weight political satire carries, and the more Putin and other authorities risk appearing as dried-up, humorless old men [...]

Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: Electoral reform in Bosnia, opposition MPs suspended in Georgia, investigative journalist framed in drug raid in [...]

With Russia on the brink of invading Ukraine, this textbook propaganda weapon must be effectively countered. Provokatsiya. Follow Russian politics for long enough, and one soon becomes [...]

On 2 February, Lossi 36 organised an online panel discussion on feminism in the Baltic States, covering current women’s rights issues and attitudes to feminism, with speakers from civil society [...]