On 12 January, Arif Yunus, the distinguished Azerbaijani scholar, will ‘celebrate’ his 60th birthday in a prison cell.
In Israel, immigration from Ukraine increased by 110% this year. The Israeli government has described FSU immigration as ‘one of the greatest miracles that happened to the state.’ But what do the immigrants think?
'Everything will be free. Everyone will be fucking high.' Between 1985 and 1990, Yegor Letov and his Siberian punk rock group Grazhdanskaya Oborona (Civil Defence) created some of the most powerful music to come out of the Soviet Union. And had a lot of fun upsetting the KGB...
The current crisis unfolding in Ukraine has brought the issue of nuclear weapons back into sharp focus.
Scotland has opened the door to radical changes to Britain's constitution.
Looking at both the historical and current pro-Putin segment of German public discussion, one can identify the target groups and methods of Russian disinformation politics
In Kazakhstan, a local court has ordered compensation to be paid to the ‘victims’ of a poster showing Russian national poet Alexander Pushkin kissing the Kazakh national composer Kurmangazy. на русском языке
The Russian government likes to regularly accuse the West of being ‘russophobic.’ They’re right, but not for the reasons they think.
For Wilson, two men – Vladimir Putin and Viktor Yanukovych – bear the main brunt of responsibility for Ukraine’s crisis.
There are 181 occupations from which women in Belarus are banned. The Lukashenka government says this is progress. на русском языке
Russians celebrate National Unity Day on 4 November, but the name masks Russian anxieties about disunity and disintegration.
A recent clash with the police is a sign of the alienation felt by some young men from Moscow’s Muslim community. на русском языке
