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This edition of Lossi 36 Weekly was originally sent by email on 5 October 2020. Subscribe to Lossi 36 Weekly here. ? In the Balkans… River Vjosa to be protected as permits for hydropower plants [...]

Filip Rudnik on how Irina Slavina's self-immolation in Nizhny Novgorod on 2 October was caused by a crushing system of repression.

Nikol Tomar recounts how Poland's "homophobuses" has met with resistance from a famous Youtuber.

An Ode to Osh? Ryan Schweitzer describes the cultural importance of Uzbekistan's most famous rice dish.

This edition of Lossi 36 Weekly was originally sent by email on 28 September 2020. Subscribe to Lossi 36 Weekly here. ? In the Balkans… Peacekeeping monument in Srebrenica sparks fear of denial. [...]

Agnieszka Widlaszewska ponders over why the Russian government has remained relatively silent with regards to the ongoing protests in Belarus.

When in 2008 the interim Kosovo government declared unilaterally its independence from Serbia, ethnic Serbs became de facto the biggest minority group in the youngest country of Europe. Many had [...]

This edition of Lossi 36 Weekly was originally sent by email on 21 September 2020. Subscribe to Lossi 36 Weekly here. ?  In the Balkans… Parliamentary election in Montenegro: Dukanović on the [...]

In a flareup of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in July 2020, the fighting extended well beyond the South Caucasus. Armenian and Azerbaijani diaspora communities brawled in the [...]

In a series of interviews conducted in 2019, Solvegia Kaļva talks to people who live in or are somehow connected to Avj, a remote mountain village in the Pamir Region of Tajikistan.  My Tajik [...]