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...
Tag - Russia
The enormous financial means that West Germany is still transferring to East Germany, 30 years after re-unification, suggest that Moscow’s grab of Crimea in 2014 has...
NATO has kicked off the latest edition of the largest naval military exercise in Europe, BALTOPS, held annually in the Baltic Sea – considered the most likely...
The regional economy of emerging Europe and Central Asia is forecast to contract by 4.7 per cent in 2020, with recessions in nearly all countries, according to new...
Two Russian diplomats boarded an Aeroflot flight from Prague to Moscow on the evening of June 7, having both been declared persona non grata in the Czech Republic...
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has reaffirmed his country’s commitment to the Balkan Stream natural gas pipeline project, despite delays in construction...
While the whole world was shocked by negative West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil prices due to the shortage of demand during the Covid-19 lockdown, the gas market...
People in Belarus are voting with their feet and staying at home in order to mitigate the further spread of Covid-19. The country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, has...
It is still not clear precisely how many people were killed by communist regimes around the world, but the combined range – based on estimates deriving from...
On Saturday, Russia marked Victory Day with an air force parade broadcast by major TV networks, fireworks and many events across the country. Although Russia has the...
You need to do it on your own. I don’t have my passport with me so I won’t be able to cross the border. Good luck! Those were the parting words – said in Polish...
Amid the global outbreak of the new coronavirus, several undemocratic countries have been trying to take advantage of the crisis and depict themselves as accountable...