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Mathieu Lemoine reviews Svetlana Alexievich's “Secondhand Time”, a book about why the Soviet Union disappeared faster than the Soviet mindset it created.

Diego Benning Wang revisits “Lev Yashin: The Black Spider” as more than a tribute to a football legend: a powerful story of genius, scapegoating and rehabilitation that restores Yashin’s dignity, [...]

Diego Benning Wang explains how Soviet Kazakhstan became a major institutional center of Uyghur language scholarship, showing that Uyghur intellectual heritage is deeply rooted in Kazakhstan [...]

Diego Benning Wang examines how Cape Verde and Amílcar Cabral were portrayed in the Soviet press, showing how Moscow turned anti-colonial struggle into ideological propaganda while ignoring the [...]

Rafik Aharonyan reviews "Two Prosecutors", Sergei Loznitsa’s film about Stalinist repression and the machinery of terror in Soviet Russia.

Jackie Erlon-Baurjan brings you a unique insight into the geopolitics of the Nevada Semipalatinsk nuclear power plant.

Aisulu Omar discusses the complexities of Kazakh identity, and her journey to reclaiming the country's collective past.

Maja Soomägi reviews Catriona Kelly's "Russian Food Since 1800", an intro to food culture in the Russian empire and Soviet Union.

Kirsten Terrill speaks with Lena Wolf, author of the graphic novel "May the Universe be Your Home! A German-Russian Story"

Bram Jongejan explores how statues tell the story of the Autonomous Region of Gagauzia in southern Moldova.