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With Russia on the brink of invading Ukraine, this textbook propaganda weapon must be effectively countered. Provokatsiya. Follow Russian politics for long enough, and one soon becomes [...]

On 2 February, Lossi 36 organised an online panel discussion on feminism in the Baltic States, covering current women’s rights issues and attitudes to feminism, with speakers from civil society [...]

Very few political leaders in the West talk about Vladimir Putin and his threat to international security with more courage than Kaja Kallas. Estonia’s first-ever female prime minister has not [...]

Agnieszka Widlaszewska on the relevance of the CSTO in light of the organisation's first-ever deployment of collective forces to support the Kazakhstani authorities in regaining control after [...]

Rhiannon Segar on the dire living situation of thousands of internally displaces persons (IDP) in Georgia, highlighted by recent protests and a suicide in one of the country's IDP camps.

“Is that your car?” Khusnidin asked, pointing to the UAZ Hunter my friend and I had rented in Bishkek. “I have a Soviet car as well, a white Lada Niva” he said proudly, as my friend plowed the [...]

Thirty years after the break-up of the Soviet Union and the creation of the Russian Federation, many still want to describe the Russian economy, society, and political scenes as “transitional”. [...]

In light of the recent upheavals and political unrest in Kazakhstan, Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon writes about the need to change public perception and portrayals of Kazakhstan in global news and [...]

During the 2021 German Federal Election campaign, German Green Party candidate Annalena Baerbock repeatedly came out as a staunch opponent of the then near-complete North Stream 2 (NS2) gas [...]

France took over the rotating presidency of the EU at the start of the year and it hasn’t exactly got off to a good start. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, hopes to use the EU presidency to [...]