On the island of Belene, Bulgarian communism’s forgotten prison
By Francesca Barca, Hugo Dos Santos
How committed literature and the peace and environmental movements can shape the future
By Rosa Liksom
The USSR called the occupation of Central and Eastern Europe a ‘liberation’ – Russia is committing the same crime in Ukraine
By Sergey Lebedev
Albanian author Arian Leka: ‘Exodus is a metaphor for life’
By Đorđe Krajišnik - Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (Trento)
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Russia’s “Great Patriotic War”: a Kremlin propaganda tool against Ukraine and “Eurofascism”
By Hanna Perekhoda - Valigia Blu
War, loss and the unravelling of certainties, as Trump and Putin push Ukraine to the brink
By Andrei Kurkov - Dag og Tid (Oslo)
Olha Mukha: ‘For a long time, the West refused to acknowledge Russia’s colonial and imperial character’
By Kaja Puto - Krytyka Polityczna (Warsaw)
Hanna Perekhoda: ‘The fight for freedom in Ukraine is intimately linked to the global struggle against fascist forces’
By Francesca Barca
Andrei Kurkov: ‘We needed a war to show that Ukraine is different from Russia’
By Andrea Pipino - Internazionale (Rome)