The Non-Aligned Movement is alive and kicking and has just celebrated its 60th anniversary. But what role does it now play? And why is Russia taking an interest? Sixty...
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Ukraine is confident that Turkey’s Bayraktar TB2 will beef up its military capabilities and deter any further Russian aggression. But are its hopes misplaced? Two years...
Handing out passports to Russians living in the occupied territories of Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova offers the Kremlin a convenient excuse to exert further pressure on...
Ukrainian migrant workers have made a major contribution to the Polish economy over the last decade, but they continue to face problems at the hands of both employers...
It will soon be easier – and cheaper – than ever to fly to and from Ukraine from the European Union. The European Union has pledged renewed support for...
Predictions of Poland’s imminent exit from the European Union – dubbed Polexit – have little basis in reality. Poland’s Constitutional Court last...
Three decades since declaring independence from the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan is finally about to ditch the Cyrillic alphabet. At the end of January 2021, the Kazakh...
Without immediate, substantial action, climate change is projected to have major consequences not only on the economies of Central Asia, but also for regional stability...
Gulf states have been stepping up investment in Central Asia, providing a counterbalance to Russian and Chinese influence in the region. The collapse of the Soviet Union...
Pandora Papers revelations that Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš put 22 million US dollars into shell companies to buy 16 properties in southern France, including a...
It has been a decade since Tajikistan ceded part of its territory to China in lieu of loan repayments. Is history about to repeat itself? In 2011 Tajikistan offered...
An underwhelming summit has left the Western Balkans further from EU membership than ever. An ’emergency’ EU-Western Balkans summit, convened by Slovenia...
A year on from its victory over Armenian forces in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan is now dealing with a new potential threat, this time from Tehran...