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Alexandra kovalskaya

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Alexandra Kovalskaya is an orientalist scholar and freelance journalist based in Kabul.

‘If they find us here, we’ll be punished’: RT report on ‘secret schools’ for girls in Afghanistan

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How female education works under Taliban rule. “There is an underground project in Kabul called ‘Course in memoir writing for wounded girls.’ Would you be...

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Forewarned is Forearmed: If you believe buying conventional supermarket produce will be safe enough, think again

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A peer-reviewed paper published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a...

Thousands march across Spain as housing crisis fuels anger over rents and evictions

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Thousands of protesters have marched across Spain demanding stronger...

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