Bermet Talant

Nowruz, Nooruz, Nauryz, and Nawruz. These are the names for the same holiday: Persian New Year.

On Tuesday evening, just as the Israeli government convened to deliberate a deal with Hamas to free 50 hostages, Maayan Zin took a double dose of sleeping pills and went to sleep. The wait was agonising, and she decided to disconnect from everything. She woke up with a sore back but to reassuring news: Israel&#x2019;s government had <u>approved a Qatar-mediated deal with Hamas</u> for a four-day ceasefire and the release of 50 women and children held in Gaza in exchange for 150 Palestinian pri…

From her home in San Francisco, Viktoria Maladaeva watched with unease as the country of her birth, Russia, invaded Ukraine. Her native region, Buryatia, is a small Siberian republic located far from the fighting, near the Mongolian border. But like other poor, ethnic minority regions in Russia, Buryatia would soon send disproportionate numbers of men to war. So Maladaeva joined with other ethnic Buryats to start the Free Buryatia Foundation. Her activities would soon prompt a radical rethink ab…

Growing up in Japan in the 1980s, Hyangsu Park felt like a foreigner. At her Korean-language school, she was taught to praise North Korea&#x2019;s founder, Kim Il-Sung, and his son, Kim Jong-Il, whose portraits hung on the walls. Outside of her community, however, she used a Japanese name and hid her Korean identity. Park&#x2019;s experience was common among &#x2018;Zainichi&#x2019; Koreans, a term used for hundreds of thousands of Koreans who settled in Japan - voluntarily or forcibly - during…

Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief and founder of the Wagner mercenary Group, has been listed as a passenger on a plane that crashed near Moscow . The crash took place exactly two months after Prigozhin led a brief and unsuccessful mutiny against President Vladimir Putin and the Russian Defence Ministry. Wagner commander Dmitry Utkin has been listed among the passengers too. Russian authorities have claimed all 10 people on board were killed. There has been no official confirmation that Prigozhin was ac…

Using smartphones and social media, a group of Rohingya photographers are documenting life in the world’s largest refugee camp.

Previously, Ollolai sold houses for €1 in a bid to tackle depopulation and give a boost to the local economy. Now, it wants to take advantage of the rise of remote work.

Kirsty is the first Australian woman to receive a uterus transplant. It’s a dangerous and experimental procedure, but she hopes her risk will one day benefit others.

For many of us, onion skins, avocado pips, and pomegranate rinds are food scraps destined for the rubbish bin or compost heap. But not for Adelaide resident Aida Tokhtaeva, who is using them as natural pigments to dye silk scarves. &#x201C;You never know what tint you&#x2019;ll get in the end,&#x201D; she told SBS Russian. &#x201C;Each attempt is an experiment. Avocado seeds make a beige colour or the so-called &#x2018;millennial pink&#x2019;. It depends on the variety of avocado. &quot;Similarl…

The traditional folk festival of Maslenitsa sparked debate within the Russian community in Australia, already divided over the war in Ukraine. Members of the diaspora had called for the cancellation of this year&#x2019;s festival held in Burwood in Sydney&apos;s inner west on February 27, just two days after the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine . Anti-war rallies took place on February 24 in Sydney and February 25 in Melbourne and Adelaide. However, the organisers and par…