A new history of Crimea argues for the peninsula’s central importance to Europe — via Russia. The result is misleading.
In Tajikistan, veterans of the Soviet-Afghan War are fighting for recognition, but their government holds them at arm’s length.
From “structural reforms” of the 2000s to austerity policies today, neoliberalism has been and remains an organic part of the Putin regime. RU
The failure of a recent Russian propaganda campaign in Germany tells us that Kremlin strategists know nothing about the country, nor its sizeable Russian-speaking population. Русский
This new history tells a compelling, if normative, story of how Russia’s journalists and entrepreneurs threw off their former shackles, only to put them back on again.
You can ban Ukraine’s communists, but you can’t beat them.
Returning to Wales, David Marquand finds that devolution has created a political community interestingly open to new possibilities.
After Paris, we need to act against radicalisation. Russia's legacy in the North Caucasus tells us how not to. Русский
The commemoration of a massacre of Cossacks by the British Army in Austria 70 years ago has opened a can of worms in their Russian heartland. на русском языке
Ten Moscow Muslims speak of faith, joy and attitudes towards Islam in Russia today.
With new monuments and museums afoot, Russians are warming again to Stalin's legacy. But is there any communist content to post-communist nostalgia? Русский
The people of England need to discover their sovereignty and make a constitution of their own. Here are some ideas.
