Aslan Bzhania, an opposition leader, has been elected president of Abkhazia, one of two Georgian regions occupied by Russia. According to the Central Election Commission of Abkhazia, Mr Bzhania took more than 95,000 votes (56.5 per cent) on a...
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After Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a series of revisions to the Constitution of the Russian Federation on January 15, 2020, pro-Kremlin outlets reported...
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...
Six years after the Russian military occupied Crimea and seized the peninsula from Ukraine (based on the results of a carefully orchestrated referendum which was neither...
Economic freedom has seen an upturn in a majority of the world’s economies over the past year, with increases registered in 124 countries, the latest edition of the...
wiiw: Eastern European economies could be set for their worst year since the global financial crisis
The Vienna Institute of International Economic Studies (wiiw) has claimed that the economic impact of coronavirus on emerging Europe will be the worst since the global...
With the world fighting to contain the coronavirus, which has now infected more than 200,000 people around the globe and caused more than 8,000 deaths, the Russian...
The question of whether the 2014 Maidan Revolution in Ukraine and the 2018 Velvet Revolution in Armenia produced significant reforms, goes into determining their...
Ukraine is exploring new ways to engage in negotiations with the pro-Russian separatists in the country’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including the creation of an...
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the joy that greeted the rejuvenation of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe has dissipated to a considerable degree...
Hungary’s ongoing row with Ukraine over minority rights shows no signs of abating, although a meeting set for later this month may lay the foundations for a possible...
I laughed. On March 9, Romania’s tax authority ANAF announced that in order to help combat the spread of the coronavirus Covid-19, it was recommending taxpayers avoid...
