The revolution of 2020 in Belarus has often been described as a new 1989 and there is no
doubt that the emancipatory appeal of the Belarusian protests is similar to the one that …

Libman and Obydenkova reveal how legacies of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
(CPSU) have survived in the politics, economic development, culture, and society of post …

The article examines the political and cultural processes of nation-building over thirty years
of independence in Belarus. It argues that in becoming a nation-state Belarus has faced …

This article examines the role of outer space technopolitics in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. It
explores how outer space, the technological artefact of global relevance, works as a …

Recent scholarship in critical toponymy studies has refashioned the understanding of street
names from innocent labels to nominal loci of historical memory and vectors of collective …

The article contributes to the theorisation of collective memory involved in building the
international representations of a nation, and examines how strategic responses to the …

This article contributes to the emerging scholarship on space programmes developed by
nations across global semi-peripheries, and it uncovers the major factors and challenges …

The history of Central and Eastern Europe, with its frequent regime changes and border
shifts, is rich in place-name changes. The most radical waves of renaming occurred twice in …

The article explores the historical trends and patterns in the politics of space in toponymic
landscapes of Soviet and postSoviet Belarus through the prism of critical toponymy and the …

This paper reflects on urban cultural development in a post-Soviet context. Most literature on
arts and the city focuses either on Western cities, often recovering from post-industrial …