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How a Cultural Appropriation Dispute Among ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Obsessed Artists Lead to a Celebration of the Many Indigenous Cultures of the Ex-Soviet Territories

In a wholesome display of Twitter de-escalation, Kazakh artists used the hashtag #AvatarSNG to shed light on the many cultures of CIS-countries and beyond

August 25th, 2020|Country: Azerbaijan, Bashkortostan, Belarus, Chuvashia, Crimean Karaites, Georgia, Hutsul People, Kalmykia, Kamchadals, Karelia, Kazakhstan, Komi, Kuban Cossacks, Kyrgyzstan, Mari El, Moldova, Mordovia, Nivkh People, Pontic Greeks, Roma, Russia, Sakha, Selkup People, Tatarstan, Tuva, Udmurtia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan|

7 Fresh Animated Short Films Directed by Women From All Over the World

Topless supermarkets, museum exhibits riddled with anxiety, nature-loving robots, immigrant artists and albatross soup: there’s nothing that’s out of bounds for women at Animation Block Party

October 28th, 2019|Country: Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, USA|

Film: State Funeral, dir. Sergei Loznitsa, 2019

An immersive experience of Joseph Stalin’s 1953 funeral proceedings carefully constructed from archival footage that gives a rare glimpse into the psyche of the era

October 14th, 2019|Country: Lithuania, Netherlands, Russia, Ukraine|

Book: Józef Czapski, Inhuman Land: Searching for the truth in Soviet Russia, 1941-1942

The memoirs of an artist and activist who traveled across USSR in search of Polish POWs during WWII, that give an unflinching account of life in the remote corners of the Soviet empire

August 1st, 2019|Country: Iran, Iraq, Poland, Russia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine|

Food: Streecha, NYC

Homecooked Ukrainian food in a basement facility manned by church volunteers: the closest you will get to eating babushka’s borscht in NYC

February 9th, 2019|Country: Ukraine|

Music: Smithsonian Folkways, Folk Music of the USSR, 1960

October 18th, 2018|Country: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bashkortostan, Belarus, Dagestan, Georgia, Karelia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, South Ossetia, Tajikistan, Tatarstan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan|