Today, the name Yelena Mizulina is a byword for Russian ultra-conservatism. But her ‘patriotic’ policies have a surprisingly liberal backstory.
When talking about present day Ukraine and its new 'historical' laws, we need to think beyond ‘identity’ and ‘history’.
Russia was everywhere and nowhere at the recent Eastern Partnership summit in Riga.
Since 1991, Georgia has celebrated Independence Day annually on 26 May. But this national holiday only exposes the gap between elites and the people.
As post-Soviet states continue their 'conservative turn', feminist artists stand up to address gender injustice in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.
After two decades of russification, the Belarusian government is rethinking its identity politics.
In The Underground, like his mixed-race hero, Hamid Ismailov is looking, above and below ground, for the answer to the question: what is 'Russianness'?
Ukraine has a new holiday – 8 May, Day of Remembrance – and a new symbol, the poppy. But 9 May remains, as a reminder of the fact that war is ‘never a pretty story.’
Truth may well be the first victim of war, and fair-minded and dispassionate accounts of events in Ukraine are rare.
As Russian nationalism continues to varnish foreign and domestic policy motives, diaspora loyalties take on fresh significance both at home and abroad.
The disintegration of the Soviet Union has given birth to a new and difficult reality in Georgia.
Is the Ukraine conflict shifting Russia's Middle Eastern policy from real strategy to scoring cheap points?
