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Aisulu Omar uses her grandmother’s earrings to explore how Kazakh identity is shaped by inheritance, religion, colonialism, gender and the right to choose what traditions we carry forward.

Johanna Hurter explores the variety of Kalev chocolates and how their packaging helps assert Estonian identity.

Aisulu Omar discusses the complexities of Kazakh identity, and her journey to reclaiming the country's collective past.

Sofia Graziano recounts how centuries of singing have shaped Estonian identity and memory.

February 1 marked the anniversary of the national remembrance of the victims of Communism in Bulgaria. On this date in 1945, the People’s Court handed down death penalties to a large number of [...]

 “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 [...]

Pavlo Cherchatyi on how Russia’s intervention in Ukraine in 2014 became a catalyst for a uniting Ukrainian national identity.

Amanda Sonesson reviews Sergei Lebedev's latest novel, The Goose Fritz, a story about "how the difference between life and death can lie in the specific order of a bunch of letters."

This article is the third in a series of articles written by the graduates of 2018’s Solidarity Academy and re-published in collaboration with Lossi 36. Solidarity Academy is an international [...]