Ivan Zoloto: Russia’s DIY music legend bringing strange new sounds to the airwaves
Asiya Bareeva: the Russian designer changing how we perceive Islamic fashion
Wiktoria Wojciechowska: the prolific Polish photographer capturing war, home and Chinese commuters
Project Art Beat: the portable Tbilisi-based gallery taking contemporary art across the Caucasus
Post-Soviet erotica: the magazines and photographers leaving 90s sleeze behind
SHTAB: the queer communists of Bishkek bringing politics and art back together
Radmila Khakova: the Tatar writer lifting the veil on modern dating
Wonderzine: the smart and sassy magazine pushing Russia’s gender revolution
Yacheyka: Yekaterinburg architects reinventing Constructivist heritage for the 21st century
Nanushka: the Budapest fashion label fusing high style with functionality
Alisa Ganieva: meet the visionary author pulling back the curtain on Dagestan and beyond
Wulffius: visual art and music rub shoulders in the work of this Yalta-based prodigy
AES+F: Russia’s premier surreal-medieval-cyber art collective
Jahnkoy: the New York-based Russian fashion label celebrating a new multiculturalism
Delada: a London-based Russian label inspired by personal memories and collective history
Nikola Mihov: meet the photographer exploring the forgotten communist-era monuments of Bulgaria
Kasia Syramalot: meet the journalist-photographer pulling back the curtain on contemporary Minsk
Marfa Journal: the arts magazine by a Yekaterinburg native inspired by a Texan town
