Religious Minorities and Covid-19 in Georgia: challenges for equal treatment
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a great challenge for Georgia, not only in terms of economic issues or the sustainability of the health care system but also in terms of proving that all peaceful [...]
A Palace for Putin: Navalny’s most daring move yet?
A Palace for Putin, Alexei Navalny’s latest anti-corruption video, has taken the internet by storm, much to the grievance of Vladimir Putin. On January 19, the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) [...]
Monarchy…Unemployed?: The curious case of former ruling houses in the Balkans
‘The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left—the King of England, the King of Spades, the King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.’ So King Farouk of [...]
Water Shortages and Recurrent Drought: Crimea after 2014
Crimea is drying up, and it has everything to do with political arm-wrestling between Russia and Ukraine. Almost seven years after the seizure of Crimea by the Russian Federation, the region is [...]
A New Constitution for an Old President: how Putin is changing the state of the nation
In the past months, the world’s attention was directed towards the US presidential elections and President Trump’s defeat and subsequent refusal to concede. Trump’s campaign [...]
Ukraine Should Beware of the Georgian Development Model
When Ukrainian President Zelenskiy announced that he would seek Mikhail Saakashvili’s appointment as deputy Prime Minister, commentators were split. For some Zelenskiy was displaying a serious [...]
Gay Marriage, Corruption, and Credibility – dethroning the far-right in Estonia
Almost two years after the Estonian Centre Party’s decision to go into coalition with the far-right Estonian Conservative Nationalist Party (EKRE), the Prime Minister Jüri Ratas stepped down amid [...]
Scandal on Toompea: a fresh start for Estonia?
In Washington, D.C., officials and policymakers spent much of January preparing for the inauguration of Joe Biden. The soon-to-be President is still busy assembling his Cabinet and developing the [...]
A Spectrum of Victory and Defeat in the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
It has been two months since the most recent installment of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict ended with an agreement signed on 9 November by heads of state of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia. War [...]
