Named after its discoverer, the French-Armenian astronomer Agop Terzan, this is the globular cluster Terzan 7 — a densely packed ball of stars bound together…
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Temperance
Adaption from graphics by OpenClipArt via Freesvg.org Pope Gregory I, bishop of Rome from 590 to 604 A.D., was convinced that the end of the…
A conceptual toolbox
Read Matilda Amundsen Bergström’s article Temperance Virtue overcoming boundaries Matilda Amundsen Bergström Matilda Amundsen Bergström revisits temperance – the sixth century ethical cornerstone, dismissed as…
The truth about MH17
Eurozine · The truth about MH17: Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat in interview Gagarin, the Eurozine podcast Listen and subscribe wherever you get you podcasts At…
Faire l’idiot!
Photo by Florian Klauer from Unsplash ‘Pinkpoppppppppppp!’1 Someone in the audience shouted the name of the other music festival near the end of my talk…
Enter the people!
Osteuropa: Your daughter was one of the thousands of people detained by the Lukashenka regime in the past ten days. How did you find out?…
Символический жест, ведущий к катастрофе
Собор Святой Софии — главный храм Византийской империи и всего православного мира, построенный в VI веке императором Юстинианом, 10 июля этого года указом президента Турции…
Paradise lost?
The Czech Republic has recently seen heated and, at times, hostile debates surrounding the removal of a statue of Red Army general Ivan Konev from…
Incydent
Jest bowiem w ogóle kwestia, czy „jaśniejsza przyszłość” to naprawdę i zawsze sprawa jakiegoś odległego „tam”. A jeżeli – przeciwnie – jest czymś, co już…
Hagia Sophia: politics before culture
On 10 July 2020, by a decree of the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the basilica of Hagia Sophia – the central church of the Byzantine…
Belarus: Status quo at what price?
Osteuropa: The Belarusian regime clearly denies its citizens the right to change their government through elections. What do the current events tell us? Astrid Sahm:…
A conceptual toolbox for the present
mockups-design.com A conceptual toolbox for the present Glänta 1–2/2020 Eurozine Review Formative moments of a democrat New Eastern Europe 4/2020 Eurozine Review Going live Positionen…
Formative moments of a democrat
A conceptual toolbox for the present Glänta 1–2/2020 Eurozine Review Formative moments of a democrat New Eastern Europe 4/2020 Eurozine Review Going live Positionen 123…
Going live
A conceptual toolbox for the present Glänta 1–2/2020 Eurozine Review Formative moments of a democrat New Eastern Europe 4/2020 Eurozine Review Going live Positionen 123…
More than convenience
Annelinn, TartuPhoto by Ivo Kruusamägi from Wikimedia Commons One sunny Sunday morning, in London, my wife and I were having coffee and making plans for…
Understanding the silent war
I have been researching Russian cyber warfare and intelligence capabilities for more than a decade, and for all that time its significance and soft power…
Solidarity with Belarus
Shards of truth Svetlana Alexievich Siarhej Šapran Roma communities never got a break Roma Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 Marko Pecak Incident Or three short essays…
Delete your profile, not people
Sad by design Geert Lovink Photo by Chris Devers from Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to…
Incident
Photo by Rostislav Artov @rostikarts from Unsplash The real question is whether the brighter future is really always so distant. What if, on the contrary,…
Roma communities never got a break
Austrian Romani Holocaust Survivor Ceija Stojka painted this rendering of what happened in the showers of Auschwitz. Photo via The Advocacy Project from Flickr. On…
The subaltern in global labour history
The Greek journal Historein looks at new research in comparative global labour. Contributions take transnational, transcontinental perspectives that go beyond the confines of Eurocentrism and…
Sociology and colonialism
In January this year, the Hamburger Institute for Social Research awarded its annual Siegfried Landshut prize to the US sociologist George Steinmetz. Mittelweg 36, the…
Growing old in a sick world
mockups-design.com Turkey’s first COVID-19 case was recorded on 11 March, triggering a series of restrictions on travel and gatherings across the country. On 21 March…
Shards of truth
Siarhej Šapran: After you received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015, you said on several occasions that it was hard to get used to…
The junk property crisis
Berlin, like many other international metropolises, has experienced an increase in immigration for some time. Outwardly, the city presents itself as open and multicultural. City…
After Populism
A great deal has been said about the errors of populist politics, but the puzzling thing is that populist politicians seem to get some things…
Resurrecting the soil
My shovel hit the earth with a ka-chunk. My friend and I were digging trenches to lay down a line of asparagus. We didn’t get…
When every thought goes public
Government reticence about informing the public on the coronavirus outbreak signalled a lack of trust in society and helped the virus spread, writes Rachael Jolley…
Farewell to dreamland
1989 and its aftermath gave life to a liberating yet frightening era of ‘wild thinking’, whose manifold meanings and consequences refuse to be caged in…
Beyond bronze
A mechanical whir cranks the upside-down bronze out from where it was unceremoniously dumped. Then, as if in flashback, euphoric protestors cheer and clap as…