After two delays, the much anticipated Biden-Zelensky looks set to finally happen on September 1. What will they be talking about? Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky...
Christian Mamo
Christian Mamo is a reporter at Emerging Europe.
Gambling was illegal in Ukraine for 11 years, from 2009-20. A year on from the end of its prohibition, it’s once again becoming big business. For the past 12...
The first in a new series of pieces from our correspondents throughout Central and Eastern Europe taking a tongue-in-cheek look at life in the region. I have trouble...
The Crimea Platform – held by Ukraine on the 30th anniversary of the country’s independence – demonstrated that the world has not forgotten about...
Disputes over language in Central Asia are being amplified by the Kremlin to validate its presence in the region. Two relatively minor incidents in Kyrgyzstan recently...
An attractive income tax rate of just five per cent could be set to give Ukraine’s e-residency programme the edge over its regional competitors, and further boost the...
Pan-Turkism is seeing a revival as an increasingly ambitious Turkey asserts its influence in the post-Soviet world, setting off alarm bells in Moscow in particular. Back...
Real estate prices in Kyiv have been skyrocketing in recent months, with little sign of the bubble bursting anytime soon. Take a drive through the Ukrainian capital...
Ukraine’s parliament last month approved Diia City, a special economic zone providing a new legal and tax framework for IT companies, which the country and key partners...
The swift collapse of the Afghan government following the withdrawal of US forces has taken most of the world by surprise. The countries of Central and Eastern Europe...
Beyond the political sabre-rattling, the situation on the Belarus-Lithuania border exposes the callousness of those involved towards the plight of vulnerable migrants...
Could hosting a banned Iranian dissident group compromise Albania’s security? Some 30 kilometres west from Albania’s capital Tirana, nestled between a...
