Interview

This is a translation of the article “‘Queera personer har deltagit i protesterna från start’ – HBTQ+ kamp i kaotiskt Belarus,” originally published in Swedish by the anarchist magazine Brand.  [...]

Solveiga Kalva interviews Hadicha in the village of Avj, Tajikistan (Part 1).

Solveiga Kalva interviews Zevar in Avj, Tajikistan.

Solveiga Kalva interviews Zevar in Avj, Tajikistan.

Solveiga Kalva interviews Salim and Gulru about the local legends in Avj, Tajikistan.

Amanda Sonesson speaks to Johanna Rannula about her exhibit Siberian White, documenting the experiences of Estonians forcibly relocated to Siberia by the USSR.

It’s an unfortunate fact that no Russian writer since Solzhenitsyn has penetrated the Western consciousness; no composer since Shostakovich, and no playwright since Chekhov, either. But Russian [...]

Just a week before the seriousness of the ongoing pandemic really hit, when it was still possible – though a bit complicated – to travel between countries, I found myself in a hotel [...]

In 2013, Russia’s State Duma unanimously passed a bill criminalizing the  distribution of “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships.” The legislation effectively prohibited public [...]

Solveiga Kaļva interviews Bahti, a teenager from the remote Tajik village of Avj.