Hungary’s presidency of the Council of the EU made enlargement a dirty word. Poland needs to make it not just acceptable again, but essential. Outlining Poland’s...
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For Ania Tatou, Ukraine’s war has become a fight for her adopted homeland and a way to reclaim her identity. Her life is now woven into the fabric of the...
Astana has struck a happy medium between neither antagonising nor warming up to an increasingly belligerent Moscow, while simultaneously cultivating stronger commercial...
The solid growth of recent years continues, but Kyrgyzstan is still playing economic catch up with most of its neighbours. Diversification—especially into tourism—would...
As the recent ousting of Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad proves, no autocracy is permanent—and that includes the regime of Azeri President Ilham Aliyev. In late...
What happened in Romania’s presidential election marks the beginning of the new political era, of hybrid war, political unrest, and disdain, anger and revolt against...
Surprisingly little is known in the West about the role of Central Asia in World War II. This scholarly but thoroughly readable work plugs that gap. Even though Central...
As of October 2024, an estimated 3.6 million people remain internally displaced in Ukraine, while the United Nations estimates that Ukraine has lost 60 per cent of its...
The first significant Russian strategic defeat as a direct consequence of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine is the loss of its Mediterranean outpost. Vladimir...
Heavens did not fall. Romania did not, on December 8, elect an openly pro-Russia president. With the diaspora already voting in the second round of the country’s...
Moldova is an example for other small countries tethered economically to Moscow—reorientation of the economy is not just possible, but essential. Tethered for decades to...
Mining-driven economic growth since 2023 has lifted Mongolia to upper-middle income status, but despite this strong growth, further diversification of the economy is...