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 - Vladimir Putin
The long-standing authoritarian leader of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, is experiencing the most turbulent period of his presidency. After stealing another election...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has long said – in reference to Nord Stream 2, a gas pipeline which will link Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea – that...
Current events in Belarus could be leading to an outcome similar to that of the 2018 Velvet Revolution in Armenia rather than the 2013-14 Revolution of Dignity in...
Siberia, known primarily for its freezing temperatures and thick forests, has been a land this summer apocalyptically transformed. Abnormally high temperatures have...
Since a Russian-brokered ceasefire in 1994 brought an end to six years of often intense fighting in the majority Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern...
Unmoved by the largest protests in the history of independent Belarus, the country’s dictator Alexander Lukashenko refuses to budge. Still supported by a majority within...
The opposition in Belarus has called for a general strike, after tens of thousands of protesters gathered in the capital Minsk for the biggest rally in the...
August 7, 2020, marks 12 years since Russia’s military aggression and subsequent occupation of Georgian territories in August 2008. Although the massive armed...
Alexander Lukashenko’s goose looks to be well and truly cooked. For the former chicken farmer who has run Belarus with a mixture of tough love and outright repression...
With Nord Stream 2 still incomplete, Poland fines Gazprom 48 million euros for ‘lack of cooperation’
The Polish anti-monopoly watchdog UOKiK has fined Russian energy giant Gazprom 213 million Polish złoty (48 million euros) over a lack of cooperation in its proceedings...
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has long been dubbed “Europe’s last dictator”. The epithet is not entirely true, not least as Vladimir Putin in...
