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...
From the Editors
Across Romania, people will vote on September 27 in local elections that – in the absence of any reliable opinion polls – will provide the most accurate gauge of...
How many times over the past few years have you read or heard the phrase Poland’s right-wing ruling Law and Justice party? Even if your interest in Polish politics is...
NATO Deputy Secretary-General Mircea Geoană said last week that the Covid-19 pandemic has led to a “hyper-acceleration of history”, and that like all major turning...
The message from Belarus is clear: the threat of sanctions against dictator Alexander Lukashenko and leading officials in his regime who rigged Sunday’s presidential...
Alexander Lukashenko’s goose looks to be well and truly cooked. For the former chicken farmer who has run Belarus with a mixture of tough love and outright repression...
The European Union is alive and well. Earlier this month, Croatia and Bulgaria got the green light from European Union finance ministers to join the European Central...
How quickly things change. Less than two months ago most of the countries of Central, Eastern and South East Europe were being hailed for the exemplary way in which they...
How quickly things change. Less than two months ago most of the countries of Central, Eastern and South East Europe were being hailed for the exemplary way in which they...
There’s something of a mixed picture across the emerging Europe region with regards to Covid-19. In several countries, notably in the...
The people of Bucharest, Romania’s capital, appear to have decided that coronavirus no longer exists, or at the very least is no longer a threat. Despite face masks...
You write too much about Estonia, and it’s always complementary – a genuine ‘complaint’ from a reader of Emerging Europe. Well, throwing convention and my usual...
