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This edition of Lossi 36 Weekly was originally sent by email on 12 April 2021. Subscribe to Lossi 36 Weekly here. Plane “full of returning POWs” arrives in Yerevan from Baku, empty. On the [...]

Tensions are rising in Kazakhstan over China's political and economic influence in the country and the continued detention of ethnic Kazakhs in China's Xinjiang province.

Nicholas Morgan on rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine. Will the frozen conflict in Donbas turn hot in the coming months?

In December, Maia Sandu became the new president of Moldova. Her pro-EU stance might help bring the country closer to the EU, at the same time, the frozen conflict with de facto independent [...]

For the Stepanakert based football team Lernayin Artsakh, last years season was abruptly interrupted by the Nagorno-Karabakh war. For 44 days, the team's players had to change their workout [...]

This edition of Lossi 36 Weekly was originally sent by email on 5 April 2021. Subscribe to Lossi 36 Weekly here. This Week’s Special Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan announce deal to end border [...]

Galina Rymbu’s poems employ history as a discursive tool to understand the present—stories of revolution, movement in time and space, life, and livelihood emerge. Review by Katherine Leung.

Martina Urbinati asks whether it still makes sense to speak of a post-Soviet cultural space? 

"The author’s passion for music and culture is enough for the novel to deliver a fascinating portrait of Kazak culture and a definitive record of the words between the music".

A powerful recount of what it's like to be black in a white majority society.