This year marks the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. How does this small city in southern Kazakhstan, which lost half its population to migration and most of its jobs to industrial decline, cope today?
In a letter seen by openDemocracy Turkish Canadian PhD student Cihan Erdal says that he is a 'political hostage' - this is his story and his letter to the world
The European Union’s ruling bodies have always shamelessly grabbed power to themselves and away from the people – but this has left the bloc stuckThis article is a summary of the second of three lengthy essays about the European Union by the historian Perry Anderson, published in the London Review
