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Georgina McCartney interviews two former Kyiv Post staff writers about the dramatic events on 8 December and the subsequent launch of the Kyiv Independent.

On Monday staff of the Kyiv Post arrived at the newspaper's office, to find that they had been fired and the webpage shut down. They are now scrambling to save what's left while working on [...]

Katherine Leung review Andrei P. Tsygankov's The Dark Double.

An open platform that seeks to challenge the negative connotations connected to laziness and women's lives. Amanda Sonesson interviewed the three young women behind Lazy Women.

Key figures of the Belarussian opposition have so far been successful in coordinating, encouraging and invigorating protest from abroad. By using mass media, namely Telegram, Facebook and [...]

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

After a long hot summer in the Balkans, it was about time for politics in Sofia to get heated in September. Expectedly, government, parliament and the presidency all engaged in polemics; however, [...]

Viktoria Marinova, a journalist who worked for a local Bulgarian TV-station, was found dead on Saturday, 6 October 2018, in her hometown of Ruse. She was raped and murdered. Most of her [...]