Interview with Alima Bisenova Kazakhstan has a long and difficult relationship with Russia. During the Soviet Union, the republic became one of the bridgeheads for the formation of a nation. The creation of a new, Soviet culture of Kazakhs took place against the backdrop of hunger, repression and environmental colonialism. How do these processes perceive these processes now? And what becomes - or can it become a new Kazakh identity?

The book of anthropologist Fabio Matthioli “Dark Finance” is based on a long -term field study in one of the construction companies of Skopier. Through the stories of workers, managers and officials, the author shows how Macedonia experienced the economic crisis after 2008. Dear projects and accumulating debts not only did not bring the promised prosperity, but also supported authoritarian authorities.

A big interview about Uzbekistan with Alisher Ilkhamov Since the collapse of the USSR, Uzbekistan has repeatedly become a place of tragic events, mass repressions and ethnic conflicts. Behind the Soviet government came the dictatorship of Islam Karimov, in which any civilian initiatives were suppressed in the bud. All this happened against the backdrop of an ongoing ecological water catastrophe, which ended with almost the complete drying of a large aral. How can we evaluate these events now?