Belarus
Design
Sleep Masks Made from Famous Paintings’ Eyes Guard Your Naptime
'Masterpieces Never Sleep' will give you the wide-eyed visage of a painting at all hours.
Beckett Mufson
2.1.17
News
Europe's Last Dictatorship Is Opposed by the Oldest Exiled Government in the World
The Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic has improbably survived two world wars, 70 years of Soviet occupation, and nearly a century in exile.
Dylan Brethour
1.26.16
Photo
Inside the Belarusian Institutions for Chernobyl Radiation Victims
Photographer Jadwiga Bronte visited the "internats" of Belarus—institutions that are part asylum, part orphanage, and part hospice—for those affected by the fallout of the Chernobyl disaster 30 years ago.
Tom Usher, Photos: Jadwiga Bronte
1.15.16
The Up in Flames Issue
Photographing the Search for Belarus's National Identity
Belarus's scars and, more importantly, the heroics of war have become the central focus of a government in search of a unifying national identity.
Andrew Miksys
12.22.15
Photo
Gerd Ludwig Photographs the Effects of the World's Biggest Nuclear Catastrophe
"I captured the clock on the wall. It stood frozen at 1:23 AM—the moment when the reactor exploded and time in Chernobyl stood still forever."
Gerd Ludwig, Words by Alina Rudya
5.1.15
Film
We Spoke to Kitty Green about her FEMEN Documentary 'Ukraine is Not a Brothel'
Australian filmmaker Kitty Green spent 14 months with the activists, living, eating and getting arrested with them. Being a woman, a dissident, or a journalist in former-Soviet nations is difficult at the best of times. Green was all three.
Reece Jones
6.17.14
tech
Is Hiring an Internet Hitman in Russia As Easy As Ordering Pizza?
If a few websites in Eastern Europe follow through on what they advertise, you don't even need to know what the deepweb is to hire yourself a contract killer. The sites are offering their services, completely openly over the internet, for anyone to...
Frederick Bennett
12.17.13
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