Politics

Russia’s gas exports have claimed the headlines again, as war in Ukraine rumbles on and sanctions against the Russian regime are brought back on the table. Webs of metal reaching from the Urals [...]

Sydney Millar digs into the election of Serdar Berdimuhamedow, and the establishment of the first modern dynasty in Central Asia

The Kremlin’s war in Ukraine as of February 2022 has proven that President Putin’s central role in the CSTO remains the main obstacle to the organisation's credibility and integrity among its [...]

What is the state of democracy in Hungary after last week's election? Maja Soomägi travelled with the Danish organization Silba to observe the election on Sunday 3 April.

Read Cameron MacBride's analysis of the upcoming Serbian election on 3 April.

As Bosnia and Herzegovina mark the 30th anniversary of its independence, Bosnians across the globe look on in abject horror at the events unfolding in Ukraine. For many, the images of urban [...]

As of 16 January this year, all national print media in Ukraine have to be published in Ukrainian. While independence in 1991 brought a break from Moscow’s rule, and with it an emphasis on [...]

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last month has put the leaders of the five Central Asian countries in an uncomfortable position. With more sanctions imposed on Russia by the West, the economic and [...]

On an uncharacteristically warm winter afternoon for North India, my ailing grandmother, in an unusually frantic tone, said to me, “Russia has invaded Ukraine.” She then kept repeating the [...]

As mass protests against the regime broke out in Kazakhstan at the beginning of the year, the first month of 2022 will go down in history as Bloody January. Is this the end of the Nazarbayev era?