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# “Satellites,” Jonas Bendiksen
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/satellite-states-2976jsp/
- Published: 2005-10-31T00:10:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-17T11:50:57.000Z
- Author: Magnum Photos
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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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