Today the Russian government is rewriting some of the darkest chapters of its Soviet past. The eyewitnesses of Soviet authoritarianism have a different story for us and a message for our era.
Empires collapse from the margins. The fatal crack in the Soviet empire appeared on April 9th, 1989, when Moscow gave the order for its troops to open fire on peaceful pro-independence protesters in ...
Coda Media is a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to character-driven storytelling on the roots of major global crises. The expanding geography of authoritarianism is at the intersection of all our ...
When Russian troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022 the documentary filmmaker Oleksandr Techynskyi quickly moved his wife and two teenage daughters out of the country and took a job translating for a ...
Luka Gviniashvili is a Georgian activist currently taking part in huge anti-government demonstrations in Tbilisi following pivotal parliamentary elections on October 26. The elections saw the ruling ...
Tech platforms run from Silicon Valley, and the handful of men behind them, often seem and act invincible. But a legal battle in Kenya is setting an important precedent for disrupting the Big Tech’s ...