'Satellites,' Jonas Bendiksen

Magnum Photos, 31 October 2005

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In a continued collaboration with Magnum Photos, openDemocracy brings you a special interactive photo-essay. This week : Jonas Bendiksen visits the satellite states of the old Soviet Union, documenting the Jewish Autonomous Region of Far Eastern Russia, unrecognised countries and rocket graveyards.

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“Satellites,” Jonas Bendiksen © Magnum Photos

The collapse of the USSR created 15 new states that are now part of the international community. However, it also generated a multitude of communities which for reasons of ethnic disparity, and economic, political and religious disputation remain unrecognised. For nearly ten years Jonas Bendiksen has been exploring this fractured landscape, witnessing the fascinating and the surreal.. Click here to view images and listen to his personal account of life in a land after the Soviets.

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