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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 [...]

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 [...]