SUMMARY:

Guest editor of the forum “Sovereign Futures: Politics of Justice and Governance in Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia,” Neringa Klumbytė, introduces the articles that it features. She invites readers to look at sovereignty and justice as a historical, political, and cultural process involving multiple political actors, from the government to citizens to mafia groups. Dedicated to differing scenarios of sovereignty and varying understandings of justice after 1991, the materials of the forum reveal the contextuality of these key categories of social cohesion in post-Soviet societies.