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Alexandra Kollontai was one of the earlier Bolsheviks, joining the party already in 1915 and as one of the few Old Bolsheviks to survive Stalin’s purges, she was a writer not only of political [...]

This edition of Lossi 36 Weekly was originally sent by email on 15 February 2021. Subscribe to Lossi 36 Weekly here. This week’s special Investigators draw new links between Navalny and [...]

Chechnya regularly sparks discussion in the media, from the rise of controversial leader Ramzan Kadyrov, through enforcement of the Islamic dress code on Chechen women, to the Chechen death [...]

Crimea is drying up, and it has everything to do with political arm-wrestling between Russia and Ukraine. Almost seven years after the seizure of Crimea by the Russian Federation, the region is [...]

Mamut Churlu is part of the mass return of Tatar repatriates to the Crimean Peninsula at the fall of the Soviet Union. Churlu worked for years in Uzbekistan and Russia on researching folk art [...]

This edition of Lossi 36 Weekly was originally sent by email on 8 February 2021. Subscribe to Lossi 36 Weekly here. This week’s special West reacts to sentencing of Alexey Navalny: Nothing [...]

Whilst the world watches the Capitol with relief, the battle to assert democracy in Belarus wages on. Efforts to depose ‘Europe’s last dictator’ Alexander Lukashenko began last May, and are now [...]

February editorial. Poland is going through a new wave of protests as the highly controversial law on abortion has taken effect. The law, which is a near-total ban on abortion, does not have [...]

February editorial. Much news has been made of ‘vaccine nationalism’ in the wake of the recent conflict between the EU Commission, the pharmaceutical companies such as AstraZeneca, and third [...]

February editorial. The Caucasus is no stranger to border disputes. The conflicts surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia have attracted the most attention due to their [...]