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.
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?
As the spectre of war looms over Europe once again, the European Union is busy battling with its own issues. The European Court of Justice has rejected the Polish and Hungarian challenge to the [...]
At a recent visit to Moscow, Viktor Orbán appeared more eager to seek help from Putin than deliver it to his country’s allies in NATO and the EU, writes Nicholas Morgan.
"The more limits are placed on comedy and other cultural venues, the more weight political satire carries, and the more Putin and other authorities risk appearing as dried-up, humorless old men [...]
