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Sergey Kaplichniy on the changing status of recognizing mental health issues and therapy in Russia.

Katherine Leung review Karl D. Qualls' Stalin's Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-1951.

Katherine Leung review Sharon Hudgin's T-Bone Whacks and Caviar Snacks: Cooking with Two Texans in Siberia and the Russia Far East.

Moscow's and Saint-Petersburg's drag scenes are thriving. Meet Moscow based Haus of Tina. By Rebecca Shaw.

Agnieszka Widlaszewska takes a closer look at the two longest-serving presidents in Europe and that their relationship can tell us about the future for their respective countries.

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

Ivan Ivoylov on how the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan might affect the broader Central Asian region and what should be done to stop further conflict escalation.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin is pushing a plan to unify some of the country’s federal subjects, a move that will have great impact on the North Caucasian region and the [...]

"Euro 2020 is barely a week old, and it’s already clear that Russia and Ukraine airing their dirty laundry in public won’t be the only time politics and football collide during the tournament."

"Now, as the dust settles on Navalny’s return, it’s time to take stock of whether it was all worth it. Sadly, it is hard to argue that it was."