Stretching across Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, the Aral Sea was once the fourth largest lake in the world, similar in size to the island of Ireland. For decades now, however, its size has been greatly reduced as a result of Soviet-era mismanagement...
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Craig Mazin, the creator and screenwriter of the HBO hit series Chernobyl, has said that Ukraine should be more active in producing and supporting movies about its...
“The further we move in time from the disaster, the more it seems like a myth – and the more difficult it becomes to grasp its real-life roots and consequences.” Serhii...
The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory has opened a new exhibition, Communism in Prison, at the Patarei Prison, located in the centre of the Estonian capital...
According to a recent poll by the National Democratic Institute, 77 per cent of Georgians would support their country joining the EU membership while a Georgian NATO bid...
Lithuania’s ambassador to the United States, Rolandas Krisciunas, has taken the unprecedented step of writing a letter of complaint to the retailer Walmart, after it...
Since the annexation of Crimea and the beginning of the ongoing war with Russia, Ukraine has been branded as a villain seeking foreign assistance. With National Bank...
As so often in the past quarter century, Ukraine is again in the news internationally, with questions being asked about how President Trump’s apparently friendly...
Since the end of the 1980s, when the centrally planned Soviet economic system entered the final phase of its agony, at least five rounds of region-wide macroeconomic...
