Culture

It is May, and the main event of the season is upon us: Eurovision. Ukraine is one of the highest tipped winners with their folk-rap song Stefania, performed by Kalush Orchestra. If Ukraine were [...]

Who is Chloe Tucker? Is she a real person? The “about the author” page at the back of The Official Kremlin Cookbook: Exploring Russia through Simple Dishes, Treats, and Drinks offers some clues. [...]

Katherine Leung review Barbara Martin's Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union: From De-Stalinization to Perestroika.

Katherine Leung interviews Polish native Aina Kiser about her street art photography, for our latest exhibit Eastern Walls.

Katherine Leung interviews Giulia Blocal about her work for our exhibit Eastern Walls.

For our new exhibit Eastern Walls, Katherine Leung interviews street art blogger and editor of Gatvės meno galerija, Kristina Kurilaitė.

In the Russian heartlands, Gorokhovets sits at a riverbank, practically unchanged from the twelfth century.

Although much is known about life in the gulag via the memoirs of political prisoners such as Eugenia Ginzburg and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, there is little research on the experience of the 49ers. [...]

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

In light of the recent upheavals and political unrest in Kazakhstan, Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon writes about the need to change public perception and portrayals of Kazakhstan in global news and [...]