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What the Sand Hides: How the Nogai Steppe is Turning into Desert
The history of the Nogai Steppe and the Nogai people are inextricably linked. After conquest by the Russian Empire during the 18th and 19th centuries, it is also a history of how colonial ignorance, extraction, and the eradication of a nomadic way of life led to an imbalance in relations between humans and nature
- analysis
- 19.04.2026
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- Lilia Yuldasheva
Racism at the highest level. Russia’s migration policy amid the war against Ukraine
Beda media and the Human Rights Organisations “Stoparmy Movement” and “Peace Plea” outline the changes in Russia’s migration policy in 2025
- analysis
- 04.03.2026
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- UZB
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- anonymous
Forced Migrants, Ideological Combatants, and Foreign Army Personnel: Militarized Russia’s External Resources
An analysis of recruitment of foreign citizens into the Russian army and the reactions of their countries of origin to citizen participation in Russia’s war against Ukraine
- analysis
- 28.12.2025
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- Eugene Yin
Poplar colonialism: Soviet Tuva, Greenification, and Urbanization
Tuvan researcher Eugene Yin examines the symbolic and material significance of poplar trees in the Soviet colonisation of Tuva
- histories
- 23.01.2026
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- Eugene Yin
The Arrival of Soviet Modernity in Tuva: A Photo Archive by Ethnographer Vladimir Ermolaev
What can the photo archive of a 1913 scientific expedition tell us about the key events in 20th century Tuva?
- histories
- 15.12.2025
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- TYV
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- hanna otchyk
- tony lashden
- mira levickas
Freedom Day, centuries of (in)dependence. How March 25 and the decolonization of Belarus are connected
hanna otchyk, tony lashden, and mira levickas tell the story of Belarus’ ongoing struggle for freedom from the external and internal regime
- histories
- 24.03.2025
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- Beda Collective
Episode 8. International law and Indigenous peoples’ rights
Conversation between Suleiman Mamutov, Viliuia Choinova, Selbi Durdiyeva, and Lilia Yuldasheva on self-advocacy of decolonial and indigenous activists in the times of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and ongoing occupation of indigenous lands.
- podcast
- 28.12.2025
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Episode 6. International law: critical reflection through decolonial lens
Conversation between Lilia Yuldasheva, Suleiman Mamutov, Selbi Durdiyeva, and Viliuia Choinova on what decolonial critique can offer for the better understanding of the history, conceptual framework, and institutions of modern-day international law and human rights.
- podcast
- 27.11.2025
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Episode 5. Crimean Tatar national movement: a constellation of solidarity and friendships
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
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- 28.04.2025
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- Julietta Grigoryan
An ecopoetic essay on the traces of Soviet mining industry in the Armenian mountains
voices22.04.2026- EN
- Protests in Iran: “The main revolutionary force are the people in the streets”
- Aisha
- Yasaman Sajadi
- Vahid Mirzaei
In January, 2026, during nationwide protests in Iran, independent researcher Aisha interviewed Iranian journalists Vahid Mirzaei and Yasaman Sajadi about the ongoing struggle and its prerequisites
voices13.03.2026- EN
- A Manifesto from Nowhere. On the possibility of decolonisation beyond the nation-state project
- Lilia Yuldasheva
A Manifesto from Nowhere poses questions about the place of (non-)origin, gender identity, (non-)native language, migration and the compulsion to define oneself, all as instruments of coercion within a context of global coloniality.
voices19.11.2025- RU
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- “We shouldn’t abandon people in the pain we caused them”
- Arshak Makichyan
An anonymous activist from Turkey shares their thoughts on the Armenian genocide, Reconciliation, Turkish/Ottoman colonialism, and the ongoing genocide in Palestine in the interview by Armenian activist Arshak Makichyan
voices14.08.2025- EN