Analysis

While I was still too young to understand, I can clearly remember Vladimir Vysotsky’s deep, hoarse voice bellowing in passionate frustration through my parents’ old Soviet cassette tapes. He and [...]

Mass protests in Poland are making headlines once again, this time due to further restrictions on abortion rights. It is nothing new, though. Arguably, one of the things Poland is most known for [...]

Over the past two weeks two Georgias have voted, one country and one US state. While the world’s attention has been focused on the results in the US and the refusal of some to accept the election [...]

On the southeastern outskirts of the hilltop city of Shusha, a narrow street lined with the forlorn ruins of old stone houses gives way to an open grassy field. Walking in the direction of a [...]

Turkmenistan – a country largely ignored in International Relations, is actually a central piece of the natural gas geopolitical realm. After its independence, most of the country’s gas [...]

When doctors at Berlin’s Charité hospital confirmed that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny had been poisoned with a military nerve agent, Novichok, speculation mounted over the future of [...]

In the Channel 4 documentary Putin: A Russian Spy Story, Sanctions Coordinator at the US State Department, Dan Fried, notes at the end of the final episode that “once you have been king and done [...]

After tightening its control of the judiciary, media and civil society organisations, the Hungarian government found its new enemy: the arts and education sector. SZFE, or the University of [...]

By analysing two classic Yugoslavian movies, Natalija Stepanović examines images of the Roma community in European culture.

Agnieszka Widlaszewska ponders over why the Russian government has remained relatively silent with regards to the ongoing protests in Belarus.