Svoboda Blues

Picture an old stone farm on the top of a Sicilian hill that got an Instagram treatment. A lavish table for 300 people is set outside, where horses us...

In my childhood, Chechnya was the first real war I had heard of. It was happening as I went to school. Mutilated soldiers were coming home, and we had...

Imagine you are born in the first years of Soviet Russia. At only three years old, you escape the horror and bloodshed of early empire via a gruelling...

I was walking around the late summer Tbilisi the other day. It was my favourite kind of weather - the early autumn onset was showing. Shadows became a...

Svoboda means freedom in Slavic languages. It's one of those rare words that sounds the same across most of those languages. It is spelled and pronoun...

"Democracy is essential to a successful society and tomorrow we are having our very first election. We better not fuck it up."