Surprisingly little is known in the West about the role of Central Asia in World War II. This scholarly but thoroughly readable work plugs that gap. Even though Central...
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A new advertising campaign from the Lithuanian capital Vilnius wants to show just how outdated stereotypes about Eastern Europe really are. It’s a drum that...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is slowly pushing the international media to view countries once occupied by the Soviet Union not through the prism of the Cold War, but as...
By remembering and studying the history of the USSR, we can pay tribute to its victims, and prevent its reconstruction. Although I was born in independent Ukraine, I...
The West’s reaction to the death of Mikhail Gorbachev this week has once again brought into focus its ignorance of modern Eastern European history. For Ursula von...
‘I passed many villages. Everywhere I heard crying: We have no bread! We are dying! Tell England that we are swelling from hunger.’ The story of Gareth...
At the Barcelona Olympics of 1992, Lithuania’s basketball team put their newly-independent country on the map. When it comes to sport, the bulk of world’s attention is...
Once dubbed “metal coffins”, some of Georgia’s most perilous cable cars are getting a facelift. In some of Georgia’s more mountainous towns and...
Across the former Soviet Union – and beyond – vast mosaics remain some of the most enduring relics of the communist era. In virtually every city between...
Three decades since declaring independence from the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan is finally about to ditch the Cyrillic alphabet. At the end of January 2021, the Kazakh...
Tbilisi’s Armenian heritage is danger of being forgotten entirely, but there is some hope. Armenian intellectuals, wealthy merchants and leading cultural figures...
April 26 marks the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. We take a look at what the various media depictions of the event get right, what they get wrong, and why...
