Dor Shabashewitz is a co-founder of the North Caspian Institute. He is a journalist and political analyst covering ethnic minority rights, migration and secessionist movements in Russia and Central Asia. He holds a BA in history and an MA in social anthropology and sociolinguistics.
Exiled from Astrakhan in 2021 by the Russian Federal Security Service for his journalistic work and activism, he is currently splitting time between Israel and Armenia and working remotely as a contributor to RFE/RL’s Tatar-Bashkir Service.
Exiled from Astrakhan in 2021 by the Russian Federal Security Service for his journalistic work and activism, he is currently splitting time between Israel and Armenia and working remotely as a contributor to RFE/RL’s Tatar-Bashkir Service.
Articles in the North Caspian Report
Articles in other outlets and journals
New Eastern Europe
Voices on Central Asia
Eurasia Review
The Forward
The Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs
Articles in Yiddish
- Xenophobia on the rise in Russia after Moscow concert attack (March 2024)
- Decolonizing the toponymy of Astrakhan (January 2024)
Articles in other outlets and journals
New Eastern Europe
- Is fighting ethnic activism the new big trend for Russia’s authorities? (January 2024)
- To dissolve, or not to dissolve: what makes Russia’s indigenous movements suspicious of re-federalisation proposals? (October 2023)
- Astrakhan: Russia’s least Russian oblast at the crossroads of emerging separatisms (September 2023)
Voices on Central Asia
- Kazakh as an Unwritten Language: The Case of Astrakhan Oblast (September 2023)
Eurasia Review
- Tuvalu’s new treaty with Australia effectively makes it an associated state (November 2023)
- Abduction of Russian dissident from Kyrgyzstan is another sign of growing authoritarianism (November 2023)
- Moscow’s war on indigenous Siberian cinema may have long-reaching implications (November 2023)
The Forward
- The Dagestan airport riot — Russia’s first 21st-century pogrom (November 2023)
- Myth about the Khazar kingdom converting to Judaism is symbol of pride in this city (October 2023)
- Jews escaping from Russia find a home in Armenia (September 2023)
- Jews have their own creole language — in the middle of the Caribbean (July 2023)
The Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs
- The fight for the right to speak Kyrgyz in Kyrgyzstan’s capital (November 2020)
Articles in Yiddish
Forverts
- Azyatishe opshtamike fun di anusem in Portugal hitn zeyere shprakhn (March 2024)
- Far vos zenen di dray patsifishe indzlen tsvishn Yisroels beste fraynd? (March 2024)
- A yidisher shrayber farkhopt fun di rusishe poyerem vos hobn gevolt vern yidn (February 2024)
- A yidishe kreol-shprakh in di karibishe indzlen (June 2023)
