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Tamar Kapanadze reviews "Smiling Georgia", a film about an unfulfilled campaign promise that exposes how populism and poverty intersect in Georgia.

Diego Benning Wang explains how Soviet Kazakhstan became a major institutional center of Uyghur language scholarship, showing that Uyghur intellectual heritage is deeply rooted in Kazakhstan [...]

Eerika Gröning shows how Finnish-Estonian contacts, from ferry tourism to rock music and television, helped expose Soviet Estonia to Western influence and contributed to the country’s path toward [...]

Mathieu Lemoine shows how Armenia’s Yazidi community adds a quieter, often overlooked layer to the country’s story of refuge, memory and belonging.

Maya Ivanova reviews "2000 Songs of Farida", a stunning depiction of 1920 Uzbekistan- a time of turmoil and transiton.

Diego Benning Wang examines how, despite the absence of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia from the 2026 FIFA World Cup, clubs and players connected to the Caucasus give the region a modest but [...]

Mathieu Lemoine explores Komitas’s life and legacy, showing how his work preserved Armenia’s folk and sacred musical traditions and helped shape a modern national cultural identity.

Maya Ivanova and Mathieu Lemoine explore Sadriddin Aini’s legacy amid Central Asia’s debates over memory, identity and the shared history of Bukhara.

Georgie Archer reviews "Mr Nobody Against Putin", a film about the plight of a school turned upside down following the start of the war in Ukraine.

Diego Benning Wang examines how Cape Verde and Amílcar Cabral were portrayed in the Soviet press, showing how Moscow turned anti-colonial struggle into ideological propaganda while ignoring the [...]