On January 28, Sadyr Japarov was sworn in as the sixth president of the Kyrgyz Republic. What can we expect from the controversial former MP? Kyrgyzstan has a unique...
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Latvia is the only country in emerging Europe with a perfect score in the World Bank’s latest Women, Business and the Law 2021 report. Countries are inching toward...
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...
Soviet Modernism is not everyone’s idea of architectural achievement, and its historical legacy – not least in Ukraine – make its preservation...
A combination of government-led reform, international pressure, higher wages, and the return of migrant workers from abroad has all-but eradicated the use of child and...
Throughout Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the Covid-19 pandemic has compounded existing democratic flaws, including weak checks and balances, persistent...
News last week that the Serbian capital Belgrade might be about to end its century-long wait for a metro line got us thinking about some of the many other underground...
Corruption is undermining health care systems and contributing to democratic backsliding amid the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Transparency International. Persistent...
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...
Geopolitics and history make it difficult for the countries of Central Asia to escape Chinese and Russian influence. However, a more liberal Asian economic powerhouse...
At first glance Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have much in common, but importantly, their leaders hail from very different political cultures. With Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s and...
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...
