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Tbilisi International Film Festival held a special screening of the Soviet-Georgian classic Falling Leaves by Otar Iosseliani, showing a marvellously restored version of this cinema classic.

Hanna Hodgetts analyses the works of the retired Czech film-maker and puppeteer, Jan Švankmajer.

Sydney Millar writes about the increasingly tense relationship between the Kazakh and Russian leadership as the war in Ukraine rages on.

If Gorbachev is remembered only for the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia may never escape from the clutches of autocracy, writes Hugo Blewett-Mundy.

In the mid-1920s, the borders of the five Soviet republics of Central Asia – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan – were created by the newly established Soviet state. [...]

In Skopje, museums are left to fall apart and crumble while expensive monuments are erected to support different narratives of Macedonian history.

Although the Red Army left the Danish island of Bornholm 76 years ago, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought the memories of those events to life again. This small island, stretched between [...]

A powerful recount of what it's like to be black in a white majority society.

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 [...]

During some recent wanderings on the internet, I came across a most particular subreddit: “Tartaria”. At first, I thought the subreddit was dedicated to some fantasy or steampunk fictional world, [...]