Albert Camus, one of the 20th century’s greatest philosophers but – in his youth – a distinctly average goalkeeper, once wrote: “only in a football stadium...
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The food in emerging Europe is good, and don’t let anyone ever tell you any different. Internationally, however, Central and Eastern European cuisine has not quite...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is forecasting a deeper economic contraction and softer recovery in 2021 for its region, saying the fallout...
Fighting erupted in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh on September 27, with at least 23 people reported killed in the most serious escalation of the 30-year...
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov paid his first official visit to Georgia last week. During a meeting with his Georgian counterpart David Zalkaliani, both...
Geographical distance is not the only thing separating Central Asia from the rest of emerging Europe. What makes the so-called Five Stans unique in the post-communist...
The Covid-19 pandemic threatens hard-won gains in health and education over the past decade, especially in the poorest countries, a new World Bank Group analysis finds...
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...
Slovenia leads emerging Europe in the latest Social Progress Index, a comprehensive overview of the quality of life around the world that looks beyond GDP and other...
Georgia is emerging Europe’s highest ranked country in the latest edition of the Fraser Institute’s annual Economic Freedom of the World report. The country in the...
It’s both an understatement and a cliché to say that emerging Europe has a lot of history. Conquests, battles, political upheaval and friction between large empires and...
The Caucasus region has long been vexed with the problem of water shortages, but as the global climate continues to heat up the situation is worsening rapidly, with many...