Central Europe Proposed legislative changes that would ban non-European ownership of Polish media have angered critics who say they target the US company Discovery Inc...
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Russia has responded to NATO’s largest ever Black Sea exercise by organising out live fire manoeuvres of its own. NATO and several partner states from six...
Russia is currently bailing out Belarus to the tune of 2-3 billion US dollars a year, but will it insist on taking over a chunk of Belarus’s largest state-owned...
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 A far-reaching cyberattack in Poland this month hit over 100 email accounts used by current and former government officials, Polish counter-intelligence...
Russia’s economy has long relied on workers from Central Asia, but Covid-19 restrictions have halted seasonal migration, while millions of labourers already in...
How and why, after over 30 or so years since the fall of communism, has media in the core countries of Central and Eastern Europe started to resemble those of the past...
Ukraine has emerged as a key player in a niche but growing global market – commercial surrogacy. While the procedure has been of enormous financial benefit to many...
Midsummer in much of Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and parts of Poland means Ivana Kupala, a holiday which provides a fascinating glimpse into the pre-Christian traditions of...
Central Europe Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis signed a Washington-backed bill last Friday that effectively bars China and Huawei from taking part in the...
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...
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...