Although today’s Ukraine creates its national myth on the basis of two coups, called the “revolutions”, the most revolutionary nation on open spaces of the former USSR are…
Crib notes from Kirghiz to Petro Poroshenko
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Petro Poroshenko’s criminal cases
It is virtually impossible to compile the full list of criminal cases initiated against Poroshenko after the end of his term. Some of these cases were closed, but…
Mambet’s lives matter
In Almaty, which didn’t lose its status of a capital even after the administrative capital of Kazakhstan has officially been moved to the city of Astana-Nursultan, there is such a word, used by locals – the mambets. The word is commonly referred to as semi-destitute, undereducated citizens of Kazakhstan, who have lost touch with the pastoralist traditions and rushed to the big cities in search of happiness – meaning to find a job for sustenance and survival. Something like the Ukrainian version of rednecks, but really deprived and marginalized. And this is the real future for the Ukrainian “rednecks” after the Ukrainian agricultural lands have been sold.
TALKS AREN’T WORKS
Why Biden-Putin negotiations will change nothing for Ukraine
WAR AND PEACE. WHAT WILL BE THE OUTCOME OF NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN LEADERS OF THE WORLD’S MAJOR POWERS?
One American I know, who has been DJ-ing in Berlin nightclubs for years, is terrified of a potential war in the Eastern Europe. Terrified to the point of…
