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Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: ​​Milorad Dodik in Moscow; foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia meet in New York; Turkmens in Kazakhstan; European [...]

Sydney Millar writes about the increasingly tense relationship between the Kazakh and Russian leadership as the war in Ukraine rages on.

Next week is the premiere of Glasgow's first-ever Eastern European Film Festival. We interviewed one of the organizers, Kirill Kartashov, about dissident culture and film-making.

Katherine Leung reviews A Modern History of Russian Childhood: From the Late Imperial Period to the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Elizabeth White.

Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: ​​Cyberattack across The Balkans; clashes on the Armenia–Azerbaijan border; Xi and Pope Francis visit Kazakhstan; European [...]

If Gorbachev is remembered only for the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia may never escape from the clutches of autocracy, writes Hugo Blewett-Mundy.

In the mid-1920s, the borders of the five Soviet republics of Central Asia – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan – were created by the newly established Soviet state. [...]

In Skopje, museums are left to fall apart and crumble while expensive monuments are erected to support different narratives of Macedonian history.

Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: ​​Measures to end period poverty in Bosnia; deepening political crisis in Georgia; Putin-Xi summit to be held in Uzbekistan; Baltic [...]

Though still very much in the thrall of summer heat, Bulgaria is awash with fears of the coming winter and the effects the energy crisis will have on local households and industry. These [...]