A week after Emerging Europe called for the European Union to make Covid-19 vaccines available to Eastern Partnership countries, 13 EU foreign ministers have done the...
Tag - Belarus
Journalists are still being detained in Belarus, months after a rigged presidential election. Among the latest to have been arrested is Yulia Slutskaya, founder of the...
With the exception of Belarus, all countries in emerging Europe and Central Asia should return to growth in 2021, but the World Bank’s latest forecasts come with...
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...
Each year, UNESCO adds more aspects of traditional culture to its Intangible Heritage list. We look at seven from the emerging Europe which made the cut in 2020. A few...
You may not want to look back too carefully at a year many of us will no doubt wish to forget, but we have put together a recap of 2020 in the emerging Europe region...
Following regulatory approval on December 21, Belarus has become the first country in the world outside of Russia to begin inoculating its population against Covid-19...
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...
In December last year, concepts such as lockdowns, quarantine, mask mandates, hand sanitisers and social distancing were unknown to most of us. Over the last twelve...
A digital mindset will be crucial to helping SMEs recover from the international trade slump caused by Covid-19. Governments will need to play their role too. Just how...
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...
With a resolution to the political crisis in Belarus unlikely in the short-term, the country’s economy faces increasing risks to its stability. Greater political...