Geopolitics and history make it difficult for the countries of Central Asia to escape Chinese and Russian influence. However, a more liberal Asian economic powerhouse...
Milana Nikolova
Milana Nikolova is a junior reporter at Emerging Europe.
Emerging Europe is full of people who have lived remarkable lives, but few are more remarkable than the Hungarian gymnast Ágnes Keleti, the oldest living Olympic...
Croatia and North Macedonia, as well as Czechia, Lithuania and Poland, are amongst the few countries in Europe to have legalised the use of marijuana for medical...
With networking currently taking place almost exclusively online, the benefits of joining an existing global community of tech leaders have never been more apparent...
Kazakhstan has formally abolished the death penalty, making permanent a nearly 20-year freeze on capital punishment in the country. The move leaves Belarus and...
Emerging Europe offers an abundance of opportunities for winter tourism. However, as many of the winter destinations in the region have grown in popularity, so have...
Covid-19 has allowed governments with authoritarian tendencies to increase their control over the internet. The latest Freedom on the Net report, published by human...
Back in 2018, many saw Bulgaria’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union as a means of providing impetus to the European integration of the Western Balkans. The...
Forget Lapland, forget the North Pole. If Santa Claus really wants to visit every home in the world in one night, he should start his journey in Kyrgyzstan. We take a...
Urbanisation can bring economic benefits to Central Asia, but formal and informal barriers to internal migration are hampering movement away from rural areas. The World...
Internet memes have become an integral part of contemporary online culture and some of the most common social media approaches to commenting on current events and issues...
As Azerbaijan takes control of much of Nagorno-Karabakh, international scholars raise the alarm over the future of the region’s rich Armenian heritage. The Russian...
