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...
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...
The appointment of a new bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro has inflamed tensions in the Western Balkans. In a truly secular country, religion and...
Estonia’s incumbent president, Kersti Kaljulaid, is well liked and popular with ordinary voters. Unfortunately for Kaljulaid, it is Estonia’s MPs who will...
The Crimea Platform – held by Ukraine on the 30th anniversary of the country’s independence – demonstrated that the world has not forgotten about...
The European Union has pledged to go carbon neutral by 2050, and so have the countries of the Western Balkans. But as air pollution in the region gets worse, its...
A group of refugees, said to be mainly from Afghanistan, has been stuck in limbo at Usnarz Górny on the Poland-Belarus border for days. Warsaw is refusing to process any...
House prices are rising across Central and Eastern Europe. Where does this leave young people looking to buy their first home, and those in need of social housing...
While most countries in Central and Eastern Europe score below the EU average in a new report looking at sustainable development goals, progress is being made across the...
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...
By placing environmental protection at the core of its operations, mining giant Nornickel is cleaning up what was hitherto one of the planet’s most polluted areas...
As the West beefs up sanctions against Belarus, Georgia has begun cooperating with its repressive State Security Committee – still known as the KGB...
