Former Trump impeachment figure clings to false narratives and warped understanding of realism to exonerate the usual ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

Director Zhanana Kurmasheva discusses her debut feature, premiering at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, along with producer Banu Ramazanova: "Why we are so indifferent to each other?" ...

A newly released novel is illuminating a little known chapter of Central Asian history during the Soviet era. It focuses on ...

Carmack notes that Kazakhstan’s political leadership – almost all officials were ethnic Russians or other Slavs. He discusses how the Soviet authorities used the war to further their long standing ...

Moscow and Astana have formed a joint working group for the ‘custody of historical memory’. The Russians are pointing the ...

However, the use of nuclear materials remains a controversial and often sensitive topic in Kazakhstan, which was used as a testing ground for the Soviet Union's nuclear program. The weapon tests ...

BACKGROUND Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, religiosity has resurged in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. However ... New York City: Basic Books, Inc, Publishers. Geist, C. and Cole, W.M. (2020). Beyond ...

Jonathan Dreeze '11 (doctoral student, Ohio State University) will speak about Soviet Propaganda in Kazakhstan on Thursday, March 1, 3:00 pm, in Room 210 Harrison Hall, Oxford Campus. Dreeze recently ...

The documentary about the lasting impact of a former Soviet nuclear test site in Kazakhstan will world premiere ... Yes, the Soviet Union did all of that but what about us now?