Installation view of Slavs and Tatars: Hang Don't Cut at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles (all photos AX Mina/Hyperallergic) LOS ANGELES — There’s a meditative quality to Slavs and Tatars: Hang Don ...

Vladimir the Great baptized his people in 988, converting the country to Orthodox Christianity. Before that, the Slavs worshipped Svarog, Perun, and other ancient gods for centuries - each of which ...

We don’t know for sure, but they thought they’d have to cross a mystical ‘stinking river,’ and wait for reincarnation in a parallel world. What happens when a man dies? The search for the afterlife ...

Like many important discoveries, it happened by accident. Alena Slamova, a Czech graduate student in archaeology, was routinely washing some animal bones that had been recovered from a dig in an early ...

This video traces the story of the Slavic people from their uncertain beginnings to the formation of their early identity. It opens with their mysterious origins, emphasizing the lack of direct ...

There were 19th Century Slav intellectuals who proudly claimed “the Slav problem” was the most important mankind faced. As the crisis in Bosnia attests, it still has not been solved. What was–what ...

"We were struck by how relevant the subject matter of the satirical weekly remains a century later. The topics of the caricatures — women’s rights, Western interference, religious fundamentalism — are ...