Albania’s bunkers are the country’s most enduring reminders of the brutal, surreal and quixotic rule of Enver Hoxha. For much of the 20th century, Albania was dominated...
Christian Mamo
Christian Mamo is a reporter at Emerging Europe.
Poor enforcement of environmental legislation, combined with climate change, has put the Dnipro river on the brink of an ecological disaster. Every summer, the “beaches”...
Georgia has turned to soft power in an attempt to woo its breakaway territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia back to the fold. The 1990s was a grim, turbulent and...
Russia has raised eyebrows and attracted derision by filing its first ever interstate application at the European Court of Human Rights with a litany of charges against...
Ukraine’s language law whose goal is to revitalise the national language is now being applied to music — and some believe that this may be the push needed to propel...
The governments of Hungary and Azerbaijan have been implicated in the alleged hacking of phones belonging to investigative journalists and opposition-affiliated...
Ukraine’s controversial long-standing interior minister Arsen Avakov resigned on July 13 — to widespread surprise. But many are sceptical about how much will...
Oliver Stone’s new documentary about Nursultan Nazarbayev aimed to lionise the long-time leader of Kazakhstan, but has instead attracted derision both within Kazakhstan...
Young Ukrainian activists have managed to successfully halt the demolition of an iconic modernist building in central Kyiv, showcasing the effectiveness of direct action...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s so-called Big Construction programme is a much-needed overhaul of Ukraine’s ageing infrastructure. However, in the midst of the...
The frustratingly slow process of integration with the European Union has Ukraine looking for alternative partners. In April, at the height of the border standoff...
Georgia’s experiment with wooing foreign investors to boost its agricultural industry has had mixed results. However, it has led to an unlikely community settling in the...
