A number of countries are beginning to realise that Belarus does not mean White Russia. In several European language families, principally Germanic, Baltic and Uralic, Belarus is translated as White Russia. For example, the Dutch word is Wit...
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Poland’s ruling party Law and Justice often gets portrayed as being ‘far-right’, and not without reason. The fact is, however, that another party...
The European Union, the United States and major international human rights groups have condemned Hungary after the country’s parliament approved a controversial...
Bulgaria is hoping that an initiative offering free holidays to schoolchildren will relaunch its tourism industry. But for the sector to fully recover, foreign tourists...
Can a proposed new bill really break the stranglehold of Ukraine’s oligarchs? Ukraine’s president, Volodymr Zelensky, has finally submitted a long-awaited...
Consumer demand for clean, environmentally-friendly, carbon-neutral nickel is driving change and innovation at the world’s largest producer of the commodity, Norilsk...
With more than half of its population now vaccinated with at least one dose of a Covid-19 jab, Hungary says the time has come to switch responsibility from the state to...
European football’s governing body UEFA has given the all clear for Ukraine to wear a shirt that includes a map of the country’s internationally-recognised...
Mining companies such as Norilsk Nickel have a key role to play in the sustainable development of the world’s northern territories, and the well-being of the...
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...
Central Europe The CEO of Hungarian airline Wizz Air criticised European governments on Wednesday for barring flights over Belarus in response to the forced landing of a...
The hijacking by Belarus on May 23 of a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius did not come as a surprise to defence ministries across the Black Sea region. Except for...
