Emerging Europe’s Andrew Wrobel visits Kazakhstan on presidential election day and discovers a country that continues to value stability over competition. Sunday...
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New legal analysis reveals several serious breaches of the constitution of Kazakhstan by the authorities during the tragic events of January 2022. Article 34.1 of the...
Central Europe Poland’s finance minister Tadeusz Kościński has resigned following a backlash over how the government has implemented a flagship package of tax reforms...
Central Europe The European Commission has sent Poland formal notice to pay some 70 million euros in fines for failing to reverse an illegal disciplinary regime for...
The 2020 sequel to Sacha Baron Cohen’s 2006 mockumentary about American culture through the eyes of a fictional Kazakh journalist was just as controversial as the first...
Protests against high LPG prices throughout Kazakhstan have become increasingly political, prompting a violent government crackdown. Russian forces – under the...
Central Europe Bulgaria’s parliament this week formally voted to elect Kiril Petkov (pictured above) as the country’s next prime minister, ending a months-long...
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...
More than a few political leaders from Central and Eastern Europe have been embarrassed by the Pandora Papers leak. On October 3 the International Consortium of...
Oliver Stone’s new documentary about Nursultan Nazarbayev aimed to lionise the long-time leader of Kazakhstan, but has instead attracted derision both within Kazakhstan...
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...
On January 28, Sadyr Japarov was sworn in as the sixth president of the Kyrgyz Republic. What can we expect from the controversial former MP? Kyrgyzstan has a unique...
Kazakhstan’s ruling party, as expected, took victory in an opposition-free parliamentary election on January 10, while in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan a prisoner-turned...