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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. [...]

As of 16 January this year, all national print media in Ukraine have to be published in Ukrainian. While independence in 1991 brought a break from Moscow’s rule, and with it an emphasis on [...]

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last month has put the leaders of the five Central Asian countries in an uncomfortable position. With more sanctions imposed on Russia by the West, the economic and [...]

On an uncharacteristically warm winter afternoon for North India, my ailing grandmother, in an unusually frantic tone, said to me, “Russia has invaded Ukraine.” She then kept repeating the [...]

Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: New Mladić plaque in Bosnia; Russians flock to Georgia en masse; pressure on independent media’s war coverage in [...]

Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: Ukrainian refugees in Poland; Serbia as ‘the only free country in Europe;’ Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine apply for EU membership; [...]

Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: Russia invades Ukraine; Serbia struggles to respond; Southern Caucasus de facto states applaud Donbas recognition; mixed reactions [...]

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

Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: Electoral surprise in Turkmenistan, Kosovo’s independence celebration, strengthened state control of religion in [...]

As mass protests against the regime broke out in Kazakhstan at the beginning of the year, the first month of 2022 will go down in history as Bloody January. Is this the end of the Nazarbayev era?