Sobaka (magazine)

Sobaka magazine<ref>Sobaka means "hound" or "dog" in Russian.</ref> was an avant-garde periodical that examined and reviewed events in Third World countries but usually did not get the attention of the mainline press. Countries covered included Haiti,<ref>The Double Standard of NCHR</ref> Asian successor states of the Soviet Union and Caucasian and Middle Eastern states.<ref>Cali Ruchala, 2003: If there's anything I've tried to illustrate with Sobaka, anything I've hoped to hammer into the heads of everyone within a mile radius of our paper abode, it's to believe nothing you don't see with your own two eyes – and to make an effort to see as much as possible (2003)</ref> Its editors were Cali Ruchala and Mark Irkali, issuing the magazine as Diacritica Press. Seventeen issues of the periodical were published during 1998–2006.<ref>Sobaka #17</ref>