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February editorial. On 28 January, Sadyr Japarov was sworn in as the sixth president of Kyrgyzstan. Just a few months ago he was serving an 11-year sentence for kidnapping a local official in [...]

February editorial. ‘Bring us some vodka,’ said Yulia Navalnaya, as she calmly removed her facemask on board the Pobeda Airlines flight from Berlin to Moscow, ‘we’re flying home.’ After a botched [...]

This edition of Lossi 36 Weekly was originally sent by email on 1 February 2021. Subscribe to Lossi 36 Weekly here. ⭐️ This week’s special Smooth transition to first female PM in Estonia. Despite [...]

Have you ever read a book that was so good you couldn’t put it down? What about an academic text? That’s how I felt about Russia and Central Asia: Coexistence, Conquest, Convergence by Shoshana [...]

 “The history of using Mongolian script for the Buryat language was erased by the Soviet educational system. Reviving it has become such a complex tangle that sometimes I ask myself, ‘do people [...]

Amidst Russia’s annexation of Crimea and accusations of human rights abuses, relations between the West and Russia have charted an ever-diminishing trajectory. The relatively recent Salisbury [...]

This edition of Lossi 36 Weekly was originally sent by email on 25 January 2021. Subscribe to Lossi 36 Weekly here. ⭐️ This week’s special Arrests and aqua-discotheques cause anger to boil over [...]

In the past months, the world’s attention was directed towards the US presidential elections and President Trump’s defeat and subsequent refusal to concede. Trump’s campaign [...]

When Ukrainian President Zelenskiy announced that he would seek Mikhail Saakashvili’s appointment as deputy Prime Minister, commentators were split. For some Zelenskiy was displaying a serious [...]

Almost two years after the Estonian Centre Party’s decision to go into coalition with the far-right Estonian Conservative Nationalist Party (EKRE), the Prime Minister Jüri Ratas stepped down amid [...]