When I lived in Bishkek 25 years ago, then-president Askar Akayev was so effusive in expressing his desire for Kyrgyzstan to become the Switzerland of Central Asia that the Swiss ambassador once joked ...

With the US operation in Iran triggering fresh arms races, Russia’s turn from multipolarity to imperial nostalgia highlights ...

In small-town Kazakhstan, an experiment with the “smart city” model has some residents smiling. But it also signals the start of a new mass surveillance era for the Central Asian nation.

Years of sanctions have substantially weakened the Iranian economy, as evidenced by Iran’s keenness to have them cancelled, ...

Behind the wheel were TikTok stars Dijonis Biba and Aleks Vishaj, on a victory lap around the remote region. They’re local heroes: They left Albania for the U.K. years ago, became influencers with ...

An integrated fixed tower (IFT) in Arivaca, Arizona, one of 48 IFTs across the southwest border. Photo by Kitra Cahana. While there is little research on the intersection between border surveillance ...

He procured almost all the beavers from Gerhard Schwab, a wildlife manager based in Bavaria known as “the Pablo Escobar of beavers.” Over the years, Schwab has bred beavers and helped numerous ...

The International Centre for Migration Policy Development is arming countries along European borders with surveillance tech and training to keep migrants out of Europe.

18-year-old Ethan Lindenberger testifying before the Senate Committee in March. Illustration by Anastasia Gviniashvili. Until the spring of this year, anti-vaxxers enjoyed near total freedom on ...

Missouri librarians fear prosecution under Senate Bill 775, a new law ordering jail time for distributing “sexually explicit material” to minors.

It was our first interview shoot for Coda Story’s Generation Gulag series and we were running late. Irina Verblovskaya, 86, was expecting us but our film crew couldn’t find her tiny green cottage ...