By remembering and studying the history of the USSR, we can pay tribute to its victims, and prevent its reconstruction. Although I was born in independent Ukraine, I...
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Underneath the streets of Tbilisi lies a network of Soviet-era tunnels, bomb shelters and sinister prisons about which most locals know very little. For much of this...
Ukrainian football has a glorious past and considerable pedigree, but its domestic league is in trouble. When Andriy Shevchenko won the Champions League with Milan in...
Football in parts of Eastern Europe during the communist period was a hotbed of intrigue and outright corruption. It was also the home of technological innovation...
The shrinking of the Aral Sea has been called “one of the planet’s worst ever environmental disasters”. Is there any hope for its recovery? And is the...
The British media love Poland, says Jo Harper, but have been misreading it. He offers a few tips on how to put this right. I have spent the last 18 months studying...
It was an early Sunday morning on November 4, 64 years ago. Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest to crush, once and for all, a national uprising. It is said that the...
“The further we move in time from the disaster, the more it seems like a myth – and the more difficult it becomes to grasp its real-life roots and consequences.” Serhii...
The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory has opened a new exhibition, Communism in Prison, at the Patarei Prison, located in the centre of the Estonian capital...
According to a recent poll by the National Democratic Institute, 77 per cent of Georgians would support their country joining the EU membership while a Georgian NATO bid...
Lithuania’s ambassador to the United States, Rolandas Krisciunas, has taken the unprecedented step of writing a letter of complaint to the retailer Walmart, after it...
Since the annexation of Crimea and the beginning of the ongoing war with Russia, Ukraine has been branded as a villain seeking foreign assistance. With National Bank...
