Without the handicap of overt assistance from neighbouring Romania, Maia Sandu is elected Moldova’s president. Maia Sandu has comfortably defeated incumbent Igor Dodon...
Craig Turp-Balazs
Craig Turp-Balazs is the editor of Emerging Europe.
A Georgian-British singer beautifully combines two different cultures. “That run-through was one of the most extraordinary performances I’ve ever witnessed”. With these...
According to new projections released on November 12 by the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw), the recovery of Eastern European economies will...
The resurgence of Covid-19 deepens uncertainty as the European Commission releases its latest forecasts. Economic activity in Europe suffered a severe shock in the first...
Impervious to international safety concerns, Belarus starts up its first nuclear power plant. “Cynical ignorance” is how Lithuania’s foreign minister...
Slovakia this past weekend tested around two-thirds of its population for Covid-19, some 3.6 million people aged between 10 and 65. Of those tested, 38,359 were found...
In 2005 Sacha Baron Cohen put Kazakhstan – the home country of the fictional character Borat Sagdiyev – on the map, with the release of his hugely successful...
Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) is broadly immune to criticism. Whether its critics come from within Poland itself or externally from the European Union...
Ingrida Šimonytė (pictured above, centre, on the campaign trail) is likely to be Lithuania’s next prime minister after her party, the Homeland Union, clearly won...
Czechia has reimposed a full lockdown for the next two weeks in order to combat the spread of Covid-19. All shops and small businesses have been forced to close, with...
Romania’s less-than-discerning press corps last week reported with barely-disguised joy that the United States had announced plans to finance – to the tune of seven...
In her most overtly political statement yet, the Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya said on October 13 that she will call a nationwide strike unless...
