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The story of the last stand at Mariupol’s steel works that captured the world’s attention, and why the tragedy remains far from over, by Francis Farrell.

Two weeks into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed Britain’s House of Commons in order to plead a case for financial and military assistance for his country. [...]

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 [...]

In July last year, Tbilisi’s queer community was rocked by the far-right attack against pro-LGBTQ+ activists and journalists. But Tbilisi’s strong and fervent activist scene is fighting back [...]

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

Russia in World History: A Transnational Approach by Choi Chatterjee is a seminal work that I am optimistically hoping represents the current era of the academy on Russian studies. The insight [...]

Amongst the many blue and yellow flags hovering over the crowds at an anti-Putin, anti-war protest in Trafalgar square, a few flags stand out for their different colours – whether the [...]

In 2020, the world learned both of the crimes of Lukashenka’s regime and of the resistance against it. For a short while, the stories of protests – praising the peaceful attitude of [...]

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 [...]

According to the UN, since the beginning of Russia’s war in Ukraine from 24 February to 27 April 2022, 2,968,716 Ukrainians crossed the border to Poland. The majority of Polish people enormously [...]