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As we mark the one-year anniversary of the brutal 44-day war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region (known in Armenia as Artsakh), many have reflected on the conflict [...]

Originally published on 25.10.2021. Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: The latest EU Enlargement Package discussing EU membership candidacy in the Balkans, local [...]

Originally published on 18.10.2021. Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: The results of local elections in Georgia; Police clashes in [...]

"Armchair historians rejoice. Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II by Roger Moorhouse is the book you didn’t know you were waiting for." Book review by Katherine Leung.

"The stories of a common glorified past are not a recent invention. Especially in times of historical change, they help to raise the international prestige of a state and strengthen existing [...]

Originally published on 11.10.2021. Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: Constitutional Tribunal rejects primacy of EU law in Poland; the first-ever North [...]

"While they do hurt the Belarusian economy, half-hearted Western sanctions will not topple Lukashenko’s regime." By Chris Coljin.

In this personal mix of storytelling and poems, we are taken on the life journey of a couple of expats, traveling from one country to the next in search of adventure, sometimes out of necessity, [...]

Originally published on 04.10.2021. Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: Mikheil Saakashvili back in Georgia; a border standoff [...]

The Russian city of Yeniseysk turned 400 years old this August, an anniversary that the local government decided to celebrated with a bang. Paul Shields went there for the celebrations.