‘The house search was the last straw’: colleagues react to Russian journalist’s death · Global Voices

Slavina’s self-immolation has shocked Russia’s journalistic community Russian journalist Irina Slavina. Photo from Irina Slavina’s Facebook account. On October 2, Irina Slavina, editor of KozaPress, died in Nizhny Novgorod, after setting herself on fire outside an interior minister building in the city. In her last Facebook post, Slavina wrote: “IContinue Reading

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‘We have a strange destiny’: a conversation with the Livonian poet Valts Ernštreits: Part II · Global Voices

“it’s important for every schoolkid in Latvia to know about the Livonians.” Livonian poet and language activist Valts Ernštreits. Photo used with permission. This is the second part of an interview I conducted with Livonian poet and translator Valts Ernštreits, who is currently the director of the Livonian Institute, foundedContinue Reading

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Post-election protests spark another revolution in Kyrgyzstan · Global Voices

The country’s electoral commission has annulled the official results Mass protests on Ala-Too Square, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, October 5, 2020. Photo (c): Aigerim Turgunbayeva. Used with permission. Mass protests against electoral fraud in Kyrgyzstan have overthrown the country’s government. On October 4, this Central Asian country of 6.3 million voted inContinue Reading

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How the leading coronavirus vaccines work

Eugene Lu/Shutterstock There are now quite a few COVID-19 vaccines in the pipeline, but two seem to be making promising progress: the one designed by the US biotechnology company Moderna, and the one developed by the University of Oxford in collaboration with AstraZeneca. In both cases, the research teams haveContinue Reading

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