Twitter this week removed thousands of accounts from its platform connected to a network promoting Serbia’s president Aleksandar Vučić and his Serbian Progressive Party...
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While civic activism was critical to both the 2014 Maidan Revolution in Ukraine and the 2018 Velvet Revolution in Armenia, a question remains as to whether or not civil...
The coronavirus pandemic is unfortunately giving authoritarians and would-be authoritarians globally an excuse to aggrandise power, evidenced by the recent “emergency...
A court in Bratislava sentenced former soldier Miroslav Marček to 23 years prison on April 6 for the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak (pictured above) and his fiancée...
Over the last three decades Poland has become the most successful economy in Europe. Since 1989, the country has increased its GDP per capita by almost 150 per cent...
A pattern is beginning to emerge across the central, southern and eastern parts of Europe, where those countries – such as Albania, Bulgaria, Georgia, Hungary and...
As western democracies scramble to contain the coronavirus crisis, authoritarian and populist leaders see the pandemic as a political opportunity. In Russia, Vladimir...
North Macedonia officially became a member of NATO on March 27, with the country’s flag raised at NATO Headquarters alongside those of the military...
Voters in Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed territory in the South Caucasus, went to the polls in a combined presidential and parliamentary election on March 31. According to...
The Kosovo government fell on March 25, after only a little over two months in power. Analysts are now concerned that continued crises within the fledgling nation could...
A deep downturn across the board. That’s the verdict on the economic impact of the coronavirus in Central, East and Southeast Europe (CESEE) as seen by the Vienna...
The Hungarian parliament adopted controversial legislation late on March 30 granting Viktor Orbán, the country’s authoritarian prime minister, sweeping emergency powers...