The Church in Belarusian Protest: an interview about transnational solidarity and transformative potential
On 26 August 2020 riot police trapped protestors and journalists in the Red Church on Independence Square in the Belarusian capital of Minsk. Archbishop Kondrusiewicz of the Catholic Church in [...]
May Music be Your Weapon: the role of song and oral history in Estonian national identity
Sofia Graziano recounts how centuries of singing have shaped Estonian identity and memory.
Debunking Victimhood: short stories of Pomak uprisings in communist Bulgaria
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 [...]
Monarchy…Unemployed?: The curious case of former ruling houses in the Balkans
‘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 [...]
Water Shortages and Recurrent Drought: Crimea after 2014
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 [...]
The Return to Romanticism: interview with Crimean Tatar folk artist Mamut Churlu
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 [...]
‘We Can’t Be Afraid Anymore’ – artists behind the frontline in Belarus
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 [...]
Ukraine Should Beware of the Georgian Development Model
When Ukrainian President Zelenskiy announced that he would seek Mikhail Saakashvili’s appointment as deputy Prime Minister, commentators were split. For some Zelenskiy was displaying a serious [...]
Gay Marriage, Corruption, and Credibility – dethroning the far-right in Estonia
Almost two years after the Estonian Centre Party’s decision to go into coalition with the far-right Estonian Conservative Nationalist Party (EKRE), the Prime Minister Jüri Ratas stepped down amid [...]
