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- disthene
On Created Worlds and Plotted Routes
Speculative research by artist disthene devoted to experiences of female workers of peat production in the USSR
- analysis
- 07.12.2024
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- Shaxrizoda Ergasheva
How to Turn a Sea Into Qum*?
Article by a feminist decolonial researcher Shaxrizoda Ergasheva on the history of evaporation of the Aral Sea
- analysis
- 04.11.2024
- EN
- Aida Amangeldina
The Caspian Sea is under the threat of desertification. What are the causes and consequences?
Political scientist Aida Amangeldina sheds light on the threat of desertification of the Caspian Sea, outlining strategies for countries facing imminent ecological disaster
- analysis
- 21.08.2024
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- QAZ
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- Vera Atamanchuk
First, colonists; then, enemies of the people. How Germans lived in the Russian Empire and the USSR
Vera Atamanchuk on the history of the German colonies in the Russian Empire and the further trajectory of the settlers, placing it in the context of the country's colonial policy
- histories
- 26.11.2024
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- KY
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- Dankhaiaa Khovalyg
“Exceptional Boon”. The Russian colonization of Tyva: When did it start and how did it unfold?
Dankhaiaa Khovalyg discusses the main stages of the Russian colonization of Tyva in a joint material by “Beda” and “Feminist Translocalities”
- histories
- 16.05.2024
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- TYV
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- tony lashden
- mira levickas
- ganna otchik
Freedom Day, centuries of (in)dependence. How March 25 and the decolonization of Belarus are connected
ganna otchik, tony lashden, and mira levickas tell the story of Belarus’ ongoing struggle for freedom from the external and internal regime
- histories
- 24.03.2024
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- BEL
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- Beda Collective
Episode 4. Crimean Tatars: 80 years of resilience
Discussion with Martin-Oleksandr Kisly, Elmaz Alimova, Alexandr Murtazyev, and an anonymous Crimean Solidarity activist on the return to Crimea, the history of the national movement, the current situation in the occupied peninsula, and perspectives on its decolonization
- podcast
- 27.11.2024
- UKR
- RU
- EN
Episode 3. Traditions of anti-nuclear struggle in Qazaqstan
A conversation between Liliya Yuldasheva, Gulsum Kakimzhanova, Maira Abenova and Alisher Khasengaliyev about anti-nuclear struggle in Qazaqstan
- podcast
- 22.11.2024
- RU
- EN
Episode 2. Crimean Tatars: history and culture, identity and struggle
Discussion with Elmaz Alimova and Martin-Oleksandr Kisly on the history, ethnogenesis and anti-colonial struggle of Crimean Tatars
- podcast
- 30.08.2024
- UKR
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- nomto küükn
Oirad-Kalmyk activist nomto küükn on love for her people as an act of resistance, the importance of representation and acceptance of differences in her various communities
voices24.11.2024- RU
- XAL
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- Can we hope together: Crimean Tatar and Palestinian liberations
- Çırlaq
Crimean Tatar researcher and activist Çırlaq reflects on the overlaps between Russian and Israeli colonial violence as well as the possibility of transnational solidarity
voices03.09.2024- EN
- Empires rise and fall, but the steppe remains...
- Alisher Khassengaliyev
Notes on Kazakhstan’s transgenerational struggle towards nuclear disarmament
voices04.08.2024- RU
- QAZ
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- How can we live in a perfect world?
- Neseyne
An essay by a Nenets artist Neseyne on relations between scholars and native peoples, ethics, subject’s agency, fair resource distribution, and the right to rage
voices03.07.2024- RU
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