The daughter of Uzbekistan’s first president, Islam Karimov, is once again in the spotlight of the world’s media. She has been summoned to a Swiss court in a corruption case. Bringing this case to a close would make it possible to return about a billion dollars to the country’s state budget. But in Tashkent they refused even to temporarily release Karimova from prison

The USSR as a political project began with the idea of world revolution. Continuing Viktor Suvorov’s conclusions in <em>Icebreaker</em>, historian Alexander Gogun shows what that idea degenerated into under Stalin

This spring, Israeli authorities intercepted part of the humanitarian "Sumud" flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea, with pro-Palestinian activists on board. Among those detained was Ukrainian sociologist Nina Potarska

Using the examples of Moldova and Armenia, we examine why European integration is becoming the main political project for Moscow’s former allies