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In December, Maia Sandu became the new president of Moldova. Her pro-EU stance might help bring the country closer to the EU, at the same time, the frozen conflict with de facto independent [...]

Galina Rymbu’s poems employ history as a discursive tool to understand the present—stories of revolution, movement in time and space, life, and livelihood emerge. Review by Katherine Leung.

For fans of reigning Russian champions Zenit St Petersburg, football sometimes seem more important than life and death. A few days before the last game, it was announced that supporters would not [...]

Andrei Konchalovsky’s latest feature film, Dear Comrades begins in June 1962 with a simple premise: the workers of Novochercassk are protesting and the local government is struggling to [...]

Avrom Goldfaden (1840-1908) is touted as the father of modern Jewish theatre – but his ambitions were not always community-driven as many would like to believe. The Rise of the Modern [...]

Despite spending a lot of time in Russia, I don’t like Russian food. For me, it has always been about buckwheat, mayonnaise covered “salads”, and rye bread. While in Russia, I preferred eating [...]

A Palace for Putin, Alexei Navalny’s latest anti-corruption video, has taken the internet by storm, much to the grievance of Vladimir Putin. On January 19, the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) [...]

Alexandra Kollontai was one of the earlier Bolsheviks, joining the party already in 1915 and as one of the few Old Bolsheviks to survive Stalin’s purges, she was a writer not only of political [...]

Crimea is drying up, and it has everything to do with political arm-wrestling between Russia and Ukraine. Almost seven years after the seizure of Crimea by the Russian Federation, the region is [...]

February editorial. ‘Bring us some vodka,’ said Yulia Navalnaya, as she calmly removed her facemask on board the Pobeda Airlines flight from Berlin to Moscow, ‘we’re flying home.’ After a botched [...]