The triumphal and tragically broken life of Yuri Gagarin - the first human to journey into outer space – made him the cult hero of the Soviet mythology and the central figure of scientific and atheistic propaganda of the USSR. Space exploration was one of the priority directions of domestic...
Anton Polyakov & Anna Galatonova: MAHALA
In the aftermath of the USSR’s collapse in the early '90s, the Soviet Republic of Moldova declared independence, but the region along the Dniester sought freedom of its own. Transnistria is an approximately 200-km-long sliver of territory along the left bank of the Dniester river running between Moldova and Ukraine....