Belarusian Waltzby Andrzej Fidyk and Torstein Grude In Belarus, Europe's last dictatorship, performance artist Alexander Pushkin uses his "patriotic" art to protest his government's policies and persecution. Global Voices, POV, Global Perspectives Collection | |
Carmen Meets BoratWhat happened to the villagers who were misled into appearing as backward and ignorant Kazakhs in the film Borat? Global Voices | |
The Caviar Connectionby Dragan Nikolic and Jovana Nikolic A fishing roulette about the Rat brothers, cats, dogs, and caviar. Global Voices, Global Perspectives Collection | |
The English Surgeonby Geoffrey Smith and Rachel Wexler A British neurosurgeon confronts the dilemmas of the doctor-patient relationship on his latest mission to Ukraine. Global Voices, POV, Global Perspectives Collection | |
Family Portrait in Black and Whiteby Julia Ivanova One foster mother is raising 16 black orphans in Ukraine, a country where 99.9 percent of the population is white, and where race does matter. Global Voices, Global Perspectives Collection | |
For God, Tsar and Fatherlandby Nino Kirtadze and Paul Rozenberg Russian nationalism percolates in a castle outside Moscow, where Mikhail Morozov — who longs for a return to the glory days of Old Russia — rules autonomously over young initiates, laying the groundwork for a rapidly growing right-wing movement. Global Perspectives Collection, Global Voices | |
The Mosquito Problem & Other Storiesby Andrey Paounov, and Martichka Bozhilova In a world instantly transformed by ideologies, regimes, and dreams of economic prosperity, characters’ lives intersect in a sinister past and nuclear future. Global Perspectives Collection, Global Voices | |
Putin's Kissby Lise Birk Pedersen Nashi is an increasingly popular political youth organization with direct ties to the Kremlin. Officially, its goal is to support the current political system by creating a future elite among the brightest and most loyal Russian teenagers. But their agenda is also to keep the political opposition from spreading their views among the Russians. Global Perspectives Collection, Global Voices | |
A Story of People in War and Peaceby Vardan Hovhannisyan After 12 years, journalist and former P.O.W., Vardan Hovhannisyan returns to the Soviet Union in search of answers to the war and lessons for peace. Global Perspectives Collection, Global Voices |
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