The Beet’s top five stories of 2025
From hardened borders to fading factories, these dispatches trace how history, identity, and power shape everyday life across Eastern Europe and Central Asia For the past three years, The Beet newsletter has supplemented Meduza’s regular coverage with original reporting from Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. When we launched this mailing in September 2022, our aim was to dig deeper, amplify local perspectives, and tell unique stories that might otherwise be overlooked.