New East Digital Archive
On the Road of Bones: a journey along Far East Russia’s deathly gulag trail
9 February 2018

Live by night: an evening with Maydana, Ukrainian drag queen and asylum seeker
8 February 2018

Letter from Stalingrad: Volgograd goes back in time as it remembers its darkest hour
6 February 2018

My flat-pack life: how I spent 3 weeks living in IKEA
3 February 2018

Defiant bodies: meet the photographer behind these tender portraits of Tbilisi’s queer community
2 February 2018

Chasing light: how to survive Russia’s dark winters as a photographer
26 January 2018

Queer zines: making art from eastern Europe’s secret LGBTQ archives
24 January 2018

LGBTQ literature: take a journey through New East history with our reading list
23 January 2018

Back to work: how a rare Soviet magazine inspired designer Yulia Yefimtchuk’s bold new uniform
22 January 2018

Turbofolk: how Serbia’s outrageous pop music brought gay desire to the mainstream
20 January 2018

No Silence: growing up LGBTQ in the forgotten world of Transnistria
19 January 2018

Horoom Nights: inside the secretive queer night at Tbilisi’s world-famous Bassiani club
18 January 2018

Katarzyna Perlak: the artist reclaiming queer tradition for Poland
17 January 2018

LGBTQ activism in the New East: in their own words, activists tell us about their fight for equality
17 January 2018

Being LGBTQ
17 January 2018

Trans-Siberian railway: I quit my job after an unforgettable trip across Russia
16 January 2018

Cryonics in Russia: photographing the people seeking eternal life
3 January 2018

Ivan Zoloto: Russia’s DIY music legend bringing strange new sounds to the airwaves
31 December 2017

Asiya Bareeva: the Russian designer changing how we perceive Islamic fashion
27 December 2017

Wiktoria Wojciechowska: the prolific Polish photographer capturing war, home and Chinese commuters
26 December 2017

Project Art Beat: the portable Tbilisi-based gallery taking contemporary art across the Caucasus
24 December 2017

Post-Soviet erotica: the magazines and photographers leaving 90s sleeze behind
23 December 2017

Photo books of 2017: our pick of playful and thought-provoking New East publications
21 December 2017

Explore the rugged natural beauty of the North Caucasus, a hitchhiker’s paradise
19 December 2017

SHTAB: the queer communists of Bishkek bringing politics and art back together
11 December 2017

Radmila Khakova: the Tatar writer lifting the veil on modern dating
11 December 2017

Wonderzine: the smart and sassy magazine pushing Russia’s gender revolution
11 December 2017

Yacheyka: Yekaterinburg architects reinventing Constructivist heritage for the 21st century
11 December 2017

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New East Digital Archive
New East Digital Archive