The European Union faces a major international crisis after Belarus forced a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius to land in Minsk, allowing the country’s...
Analysis
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Could Poland have been a testing ground for foreign meddling later rolled out across Europe and the US? Put aside for a moment any thoughts of discourse theory, socio...
Authorities in Belarus look set to use new “anti-Nazi” legislation to intensify their crackdown on independent media and civil society. New and amended laws...
Tennis matches are easy to fix, as only one player needs to be involved. Two Slovak players have been banned from the sport in recent months for doing just that. Two...
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia are likely to benefit if a relocation of production from the Far East occurs after Covid...
Canada-based mining company Centerra Gold has announced that it will initiate arbitration proceedings against the government of Kyrgyzstan following the latter’s moves...
Montenegro starts offshore oil exploration, worrying environmentalists and anti-corruption activists
Montenegro is hoping that an exploration project in its territorial waters will confirm the presence of billions of euros worth of oil and gas. Environmentalists and...
Authorities in Belarus this week intensified their repression of independent media, shutting down the country’s largest news portal, TUT.by. The largest and most...
Emerging Europe is likely to see huge investment in infrastructure in the coming years, much of it financed by the European Union’s Covid-19 recovery fund. But how to...
Wounded by infighting, Poland’s ruling coalition, led by the Law and Justice party, has been on the verge of collapse for months. Divisions within the main...
Disputes over the control of water resources in eastern Kazakhstan have been inflaming tensions with China. The sad fate of the Aral Sea, once the fourth largest lake in...
