Sportswashing is real, Ukrainewashing is not. There may be benefits for countries and politicians backing Kyiv, but these are not the primary motives behind their...
Tag - Russia
As speculation grows that Belarus might formally commit troops to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the country’s economic woes pile up. Earlier this month the dictator of...
Ukraine is home to half a million additional children living in poverty compared with last year. Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine and rising inflation have driven an...
You can read all of our coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including explainers and articles offering context and background information here...
Emerging Europe is highly dependent on Western European demand and growth is likely to be stagnant or negative in 2023. At the end of 2019, the economies of emerging...
A wave of Russian missile attacks on Kyiv and several other Ukrainian cities was timed to inflict the maximum number of civilian casualties. Kyiv was targeted by Russian...
The 2022 winners of the Nobel Prize for Peace were announced on October 7, and – not for the first time – controversy ensued. An individual from...
You can read all of our coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including explainers and articles offering context and background information here...
The highest levels of growth in the emerging Europe region are expected in the South Caucasus. The ongoing war in Ukraine has dimmed prospects of a post-pandemic...
Fresh calls for peace on Moscow’s terms are likely to follow Russia’s annexation of four counties in the east of Ukraine. They should be ignored. Just...
You can read all of our coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including explainers and articles offering context and background information here...
By not supporting the Baltics and Poland in their righteous quest to enact draconian travel curbs on Russians, Brussels has inadvertently set in motion the undoing of...