storiesThe Beet’s top five stories of 2025 From hardened borders to fading factories, these dispatches trace how history, identity, and power shape everyday life across Eastern Europe and Central AsiaDecember 24, 2025, 2:57 pm
storiesThe watchman in the valley What the sole resident of Tajikistan’s breathtaking Siyoma gorge can tell us about climate change November 7, 2025, 2:30 pm
stories‘Saltivka will never get back what it lost’ How Russia’s war against Ukraine transformed Kharkiv’s hardest-hit neighborhood October 24, 2025, 9:11 am
stories‘Georgians will not accept autocracy’: Former defense minister and diplomat Vasil Sikharulidze reflects on Georgia’s year-long political crisis5 months ago
storiesBack to Bukhara How memory, tourism, and the diaspora sustain the last vestiges of Uzbekistan’s Jewish heritage7 months ago
newsAndrei Sannikov on Lukashenko’s latest gambit — and why the West keeps taking the bait24 minutes5 months ago
stories‘The authorities don’t hear us’ The rise and fall of Russia’s women-led demobilization movement10 months ago
stories‘An unusual hobby’ How Central Asian Wikipedians are closing the local-language knowledge gap in the age of AIAugust 8, 2025, 10:18 am
stories‘Half of my life was spent there’ The human stories behind Vanadzor’s forgotten factorySeptember 5, 2025, 1:38 pm
storiesGeorgia’s democratic reckoning As protests continue and the ruling party crushes dissent, could ex-president Salome Zourabichvili offer a political alternative? June 6, 2025, 2:21 pm
stories(National) identity crisis A Moldovan journalist grapples with her home country’s post-independence transformation10 months ago
storiesHunted in Kherson What Russia’s deliberate drone attacks on Ukrainian civilians say about the future of war crimes10 months ago
storiesFarewell to the Rohat Tajikistan’s most iconic teahouse falls victim to the capital’s redevelopment crazeApril 7, 2025, 9:28 am
stories‘Let’s stop feeding the bear’ In Latvia’s easternmost region, ordinary people navigate growing militarization and a stagnant economy as the border with Russia hardensMay 5, 2025, 4:28 pm
storiesVanishing ice, rising risks As Central Asia’s glaciers disappear, a new generation of scientists works to track themFebruary 7, 2025, 4:29 pm
news‘They tell us to work, but we already do’ Refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh face uncertain future as Armenia cuts back aidApril 3, 2025, 2:30 pm
stories‘Little pieces in a big game’ Moldova’s former reintegration minister, Alexandru Flenchea, explains what losing Russian gas means for breakaway Transnistriaa year ago
storiesLoans for scares In Georgia, a news network’s propagandistic turn and an alleged loansharking scheme lead back to the same London-based firm October 11, 2024, 12:53 pm
storiesDispatch from Perloja How the shattering of empires after WWI turned one tiny Lithuanian village into a ‘republic’ March 7, 2025, 1:43 pm
storiesDispatch from Issyk-Kul How nationalizing Kyrgyzstan’s largest gold mine won President Japarov the people’s support (for now) October 25, 2024, 1:01 pm
storiesDispatch from Pankisi Valley In the aftermath of a controversial election, frustration and fear on Georgia’s rural fringeJanuary 13, 2025, 10:06 am
storiesRadical crossroads Revolutionary Ireland and the fight against the Russian EmpireMarch 14, 2025, 12:54 pm
storiesDispatch from Belgrade Nearly three years after fleeing wartime Russia, Serbia’s Russian émigrés tentatively put down rootsDecember 9, 2024, 2:52 pm
storiesDisappearing coast As the Baltic Sea erodes Latvia’s shoreline, locals grapple with what’s lost to the advancing tideOctober 18, 2024, 1:20 pm
storiesThe woman behind the windows The life and art of Estonian stained glass master Dolores HoffmannApril 19, 2024, 2:37 pm
storiesLena and the Wolfs One family’s story of separation and survival in the Soviet Union2 years ago
storiesForest gumption In Poland’s ancient Carpathian woodlands, an ‘invisible national park’ promises hope and healing April 12, 2024, 3:11 pm
