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...
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As the West beefs up sanctions against Belarus, Georgia has begun cooperating with its repressive State Security Committee – still known as the KGB...
Pan-Turkism is seeing a revival as an increasingly ambitious Turkey asserts its influence in the post-Soviet world, setting off alarm bells in Moscow in particular. Back...
Germany, the largest trading partner for most countries in Central and Eastern Europe and home to millions of people from the region, will hold parliamentary elections...
Real estate prices in Kyiv have been skyrocketing in recent months, with little sign of the bubble bursting anytime soon. Take a drive through the Ukrainian capital...
The US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the subsequent Taliban takeover has increased the strategic importance of the five Central Asia states. Russia, China – and...
Poland has blinked, informing the European Union that it plans to shut down a controversial disciplinary chamber that had the power to remove judges considered hostile...
The populist American far-right political commentator Tucker Carlson recently visited Hungary in a public show of support for the country’s prime minister, Viktor...
Ukraine’s recent overtures towards China are unlikely to lead to a real shift in foreign policy. On June 22, China pressured Ukraine – with threats to limit...
The swift collapse of the Afghan government following the withdrawal of US forces has taken most of the world by surprise. The countries of Central and Eastern Europe...
Joe Biden hosts his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House later this month. Backing up words with action will be top of the agenda. The United...
The strategic relationship between Georgia and Ukraine – strained for years – has shown some signs of revival, but much of the progress is little more than...
