Activists and artists from the region about the future, hopes, and solidarity

Ukrainian researcher Anastasiia Babash deconstructs the "special" urban identity of Sevastopol's residents and reflects on the city's role in Russia's colonial policy

Speculative research by artist disthene devoted to experiences of female workers of peat production in the USSR

Article by a feminist decolonial researcher Shaxrizoda Ergasheva on the history of evaporation of the Aral Sea

Political scientist Aida Amangeldina sheds light on the threat of desertification of the Caspian Sea, outlining strategies for countries facing imminent ecological disaster

Intertwining decolonial, environmental and feminist activisms and studies

On environmental consequences of the soviet project in the countries of Central Asia, Southern Caucasus, and Eastern Europe. November—December 2023

Social researcher Anna Kalinina discusses the key features of organizational practices and principles of the protest against the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Alik Pukhaev’s essay about the situation with the Ossetic, Adyghe, Karachay-Balkar, and other languages

Researchers Alexandra Biktimirova and Anastasia Karkotskaya explore Tatarstan’s multiculturalism policy, analyzing its effectiveness and the reasons behind its development

O. T. analyzes “The Problem of Territories under the Forced Displacements of the XXI Century” by Nikolai Bugai, a book meant to be a complete history of the Soviet forced displacements and breaks down Bugai's imperial mindset, which affects his assessment of the displacements and their consequences

Jeanna Kolesova traces the history of symbolic manipulations around the victory in World War II from the beginning of the Putin regime to the present day and asks: how did the sacralization of that war normalize the current one?

A breakdown of the notion of decoloniality, historical examples, and the distinction between decolonization and separatism

hanna otchyk, tony lashden, and mira levickas tell the story of Belarus’ ongoing struggle for freedom from the external and internal regime

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

Dankhaiaa Khovalyg discusses the main stages of the Russian colonization of Tyva in a joint material by “Beda” and “Feminist Translocalities”

An anonymous researcher studies the “Multan case” as a historical example of the discriminatory policy of the state towards different ethnicities labelled as “inorodsy” — aliens, reflected in all bureaucratic processes – from judicial procedures to science

Beda & Feminist Translocalities present to you anonymous author's text, in which he traces the history of the Erzya, a Finno-Ugric ethnic group in Russia's Volga region

Discussion between Elnara Nuriieva-Letova and Alexandr Murtazayev on the methods of Soviet and Russian oppression against indigenous peoples, ways of Crimean Tatar resistance, and solidarity within the Crimean Tatar national movement and beyond

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

A conversation between Liliya Yuldasheva, Gulsum Kakimzhanova, Maira Abenova and Alisher Khasengaliyev about anti-nuclear struggle in Qazaqstan

Discussion with Elmaz Alimova and Martin-Oleksandr Kisly on the history, ethnogenesis and anti-colonial struggle of Crimean Tatars

“May the atom (never) be a worker, but a soldier”: Discussion with Svitlana Matviyenko on russian nuclear colonialism

Discussion with Svitlana Matviyenko on russian nuclear colonialism. Transcript of the first episode of the BUR'YAN podcast

“BUR’YAN” is a multilingual podcast about decoloniality and resistance, a space for the voices of people affected by the consequences of russian policies

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

Crimean Tatar researcher and activist Çırlaq reflects on the overlaps between Russian and Israeli colonial violence as well as the possibility of transnational solidarity

Notes on Kazakhstan’s transgenerational struggle towards nuclear disarmament

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

An interview with Ruslan Gabbasov, a Bashqort political activist and one of the former leaders of the political organization “Bashqort”, banned in Russia

An interview with Victoria Maladaeva—an activist from Buryatia and a co-founder of the international anti-war foundation Free Buryatia