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In 1940, after a series of ultimatums and coercions, the territory of Estonia was annexed by Soviet forces.  Though Estonia would be taken by the Nazis in 1941, three years later the Red Army [...]

In the art world, Nikolay Polissky is a fierce innovator. Polissky was a Soviet artist who coined the idea of “entering the landscape”. If Paris is a playground for artists, then Nikola Lenivets [...]

Photographer Marina Klimanova captures the vastness of wintertime in Transbaikalia at the shores of Olkhon Island.

In the Russian heartlands, Gorokhovets sits at a riverbank, practically unchanged from the twelfth century.

Katherine Leung interviews Gerel Erendzhenova about her travels and photography.

Katherine Leung review Michael Löwy's five-hundred-page black-and-white volume of photographs of historical revolutions.

Batumi sea port, Georgia / Zadig Tisserand Migratory birds stopping over at a Black Sea port taste the once-clear water polluted by the metal giants, coming and going unceasingly as they [...]

In February this year, before Covid put a stop on travel, I went to Budapest for a field trip  focusing on monuments and memory. Present in most street names and squares, I was amazed by the [...]

On 22 October Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal voted through a proposal to further restrict an already strict law on abortion. The ruling to ban the abortion of severe and irreversibly impaired [...]