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Robert Brambilla looks at the history of the small Caribbean island Ernst Thälmann, once symbolically a part of East Germany

Armando Spigno looks at the complex relationship between Norway and Russia over the control of resources and ports on the Svalbard Islands

Marco Siragusa looks at the history of Zlarin, a Croatian island famed for its red coral, but which holds a dark past

Tobias Colangelo looks at the history of Vozrozhdeniye, a lost island in the Aralkum once home to the largest anthrax dump in the world

Giorgia Spadoni looks at the long history of St. Anastasia, Bulgaria's only inhabitable island on the Black Sea

Viktoria Kobzeva analyses women's activism in Russia, including the historical forms it has taken and its intersections with decolonialism

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews the 2019 anthology "I Set It Free," a collection emphasising contemporary poetry by Georgian women

Lukas Baake and Thijs Korsten analyse the socio-economic background and the domestic repercussions of the recent elections in Gagauzia.

Ryan Patterson examines the Ukraine's long history of changing the names of streets as a means to (re)establish nationalism and assert control

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews "The Funeral Party," Ludmila Ulitskaya's first full-length novel to be translated into English