After Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a series of revisions to the Constitution of the Russian Federation on January 15, 2020, pro-Kremlin outlets reported that the constitutional amendments would strengthen the sovereignty and...
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With the world fighting to contain the coronavirus, which has now infected more than 200,000 people around the globe and caused more than 8,000 deaths, the Russian...
Ukraine is exploring new ways to engage in negotiations with the pro-Russian separatists in the country’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including the creation of an...
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the joy that greeted the rejuvenation of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe has dissipated to a considerable degree...
Hungary’s ongoing row with Ukraine over minority rights shows no signs of abating, although a meeting set for later this month may lay the foundations for a possible...
A new package of US sanctions against Russia, targeting Moscow’s sovereign debt, may achieve little while the range of unintended consequences to the international...
The EU’s engagement with Belarus has been limited due to the country’s political oppression, human rights abuses, and close ties to Russia. And, unlike some other...
When Iran officially changed the name of the street where the British Embassy in Teheran is located from Winston Churchill Street to Bobby Sands Street in 1981, the...
The United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union raises a number of questions as to what comes next in its relationship with the rest of the continent. Initially...
What a difference two years of a mandate can make in politics: when he was elected president of France in 2017, Emmanuel Macron seemed to represent a bulwark against...
While it remains unlikely that Belarus will become a part of Russia anytime soon, Moscow will continue with its efforts to assert influence over Minsk. The year-long...
A boost to industry or a threat to energy security? On January 8, the Russian president Vladimir Putin met with his Turkish, Bulgarian and Serbian counterparts in...
