When talking about present day Ukraine and its new 'historical' laws, we need to think beyond ‘identity’ and ‘history’.
Russia was everywhere and nowhere at the recent Eastern Partnership summit in Riga.
Since 1991, Georgia has celebrated Independence Day annually on 26 May. But this national holiday only exposes the gap between elites and the people.
As we end four days devoted to documentary cinema, theatre and debate in London, never have documentary forms had such an important role to play.
As post-Soviet states continue their 'conservative turn', feminist artists stand up to address gender injustice in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.
A new Russian bill on ‘undesirable organisations’ has been endorsed today which will allow the government to ban foreign NGOs. But are they the real targets?
Mikhail Elizarov has written a highly imaginative satire on the dichotomy in the post-Soviet Russian psyche, populated by the detritus of modern Russia.
An economic and strategic partnership between Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey is ramping up, and turning to the West.
Ahead of parliamentary elections in the autumn, one of Kyrgyzstan's largest independent media holdings is under threat, and power elites prepare for what comes next.
May 17 is the International Day against Homophobia. It’s a particularly pertinent day for Russia, where life is rapidly becoming unsafe for LGBT children and adults.
After two decades of russification, the Belarusian government is rethinking its identity politics.
In The Underground, like his mixed-race hero, Hamid Ismailov is looking, above and below ground, for the answer to the question: what is 'Russianness'?
