Geopolitics and history make it difficult for the countries of Central Asia to escape Chinese and Russian influence. However, a more liberal Asian economic powerhouse...
Tag - Economy & Politics
Dealing with the political persecution of Moldova’s anti-corruption prosecutor Viorel Morari could well be Maia Sandu’s first test as Moldova’s president...
Following the arrest of Alexei Navalny in Russia, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya says that she will need “international guarantees” before she can safely return to...
At first glance Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have much in common, but importantly, their leaders hail from very different political cultures. With Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s and...
It’s one of the many, largely forgotten stories of recent decades in emerging Europe: the killing, on January 13, 1991 – exactly 30 years ago – of 14...
Montenegro’s membership of the European Union could re-energise the bloc’s purpose as a transformative project on a global scale, says the country’s...
A corruption scandal involving his Centre party has forced the Estonian prime minister, Jüri Ratas, to resign. The biggest losers, however, could be the far-right EKRE...
The leaders of Armenian and Azeri met in Moscow on January 11 for the first time since end of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but agreed little. The leaders of Armenia and...
Bidzina Ivanishvili, the head of Georgia’s ruling party and the country’s richest person, has said that he is quitting politics. But will he? This, after all, is...
After a stellar 2019, 2020 was for Ukraine a year of dashed hopes. 2021 will see the country return to a variation on the pre-2019 norm: balancing between reform and...
Kazakhstan’s ruling party, as expected, took victory in an opposition-free parliamentary election on January 10, while in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan a prisoner-turned...
Kazakhstan holds a parliamentary election on January 10 that will be neither free nor fair, says human rights defender Ania Shukeyeva. Today, January 10, 2021...
