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...
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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...
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...
