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Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter: election boycotts in Northern Kosovo, Georgian PM to speak at international right-wing conference in Budapest, Radio Free Europe/Radio [...]

Pyke Haans discusses the nation-building projects and national narratives present in the Balkans, and how they can cause more harm than good

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews Guram Odisharia's "The Cyclops Bomb," a vivid, vicious, and absurd novel about conflict in the Caucasus

Sydney Millar looks at gender-based violence in Tajikistan and how prevailing cultural trends leave women with little recourse for help

Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter: Dodik threatens secession of Republika Srpska once more, scandal at weightlifting championships in Yerevan, Astana keeping a close eye on [...]

Carolina Muzzilo writes about the cost of Schengen Croatia, and what it means to ignore unlawful and repressive border measures

Katherine Leung reviews the poetry collection "Breathing Technique" by Marija Knežević, translated from the Serbian by Sibelan Forrester

In this translated piece, Viktor Volkov discusses the case of Nafosat Ollashukurova and the repression of civil society in Uzbekistan

Central Europe regional editor Jakub Crcha discusses the return of anti-immigration sentiments among the V4 post-Ukraine

Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter: Local election spurs in Kosovo, tensions on the rise in Nagorno Karabakh, Zhanaozen workers once again take on Astana, supporting Russia [...]