Maya Ivanova examines how Manas remains a symbol of identity, unity and resilience in Kyrgyzstan, from schools and monuments to politics and national memory.
Diego Benning Wang argues that the North Caucasus is difficult to define because its ethnic, linguistic, historical, geographic, and administrative boundaries overlap without ever fully converging.
Sasha Molotkova examines how the Kremlin has turned Russia’s oligarchs from powerful private actors into instruments of wartime finance, production and political control.
Diego Benning Wang examines how WWII commemoration in North and South Ossetia has normalized Stalin’s image and integrated contested claims of his Ossetian identity into regional memory politics.
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 [...]
