In the popular Soviet comedy “Kidnapping, Caucasian Style,” there was this episode: comrade Saakhov, a character representing a cunning and hypocritical official from the national periphery, teaches a naive but honest student, Shurik: “Everyone knows that the Kuzbass is an all-Union smithy, Kuban is an all-Union granary, so the Caucasus is an all-Union what?”
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The Road to Change: Ukrainian Entrepreneurship between imperial Pressure and Independence 🇬🇧🇺🇦
Author: Tetiana Vodotyka, PhD in History, senior research fellow (Institute of History of Ukraine, National academy of sciences of Ukraine), … More
Soviet Mass Deportations: Guidelines for Assimilation for the Russian Authorities 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇳🇱יידיש
Author: Anna Yatsenko, researcher of memorial culture, After Silence NGO Translation: Nataliia Slipenko Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war … More
War for the sake of peace 🇬🇧🇺🇦
Authors: Oleksandra Kotliar, historian of American history, Illia Levchenko, art historian Translation: Natalia Slipenko On YouTube, it’s fairly easy to … More
Ethical Paradoxes of Russian Utopia in European Museums 🇬🇧🇺🇦
Article: Maria Nazarenko, philosopher and art critic Translated by: Tetiana Yevloyeva I recall the 2019 Rouge exhibition at the Grand … More
Breaking the Atomic Embrace 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇮🇹
Author: Alexej Ovchinnikov, environmental expert journalist, editor of the media-portal “Зялёны партал” (www.greenbelarus.info) Translation: Tetiana Yevloyeva On March 16, 2022, … More
“Third Rome” or The story about the Russian Orthodox Church as a weapon of “Russian world” and its love of nuclear bomb 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇮🇹
Author: Anna Melnychenko, theologian, methodologist of innovative education content laboratory of the MANU Centre Translated by Natalia Slipenko The Russian … More
Fifty Shades of (Neo)Colonialism in Russian Filmmaking 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇮🇹🇳🇱יידיש
By Yulia Kovalenko, a film critic and a Docudays UA programmer Translated by Tetiana Evloeva In a 2009 episode of … More
The Russian Myth of the “Great Victory” and Ukraine 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇺🇦🇳🇱🇮🇹יידיש
Author: Illia Levchenko, art historian. Translated by Natalia Slipenko To download the article in your preferred language, see under the … More
Decolonizing the Mysterious Soul of the Great Russian Novel 🇬🇧🇧🇬🇮🇹
Author: Liubov Terekhova To download the article in your preferred language, see under the English text “Ya shivu v bolshom … More