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– On January 1st, a Ukrainian soldier was killed, despite the ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia. The Ukrainian military regularly reports casualties in attacks by Russian-led troops in [...]

With only thirty-five days until the polls close in Estonia, newcomers to the political arena continue to make waves. Estonian elections have long been dominated by two parties; the Centre party [...]

– January 7th: Poland’s new year started big, with a controversy over the salary of one of the directors of the National Bank of Poland (NBP). An article in Gazeta Wyborcza, published at [...]

– The government of Hungary’s decision to modify its labor law (deemed the “slave law” by protesters and the opposition) and to establish a new administrative court in Hungary, which [...]

– At the end of December, Russia arrested a suspected US spy in Moscow. Paul Whelan, а former US Marine, faces ten to twenty years in a Russian prison after he was found with a memory stick [...]

2019 brings not only one but two elections to Bulgaria; the European Parliamentary Election as well as Bulgarian local elections. Depending on the different outcomes, snap parliamentary elections [...]

– December in Ukraine was dominated by the developments following Russia’s November 25th attack on and seizure of Ukrainian navy ships in the Azov Sea that led to the capture of 24 [...]

– With the Hungarian Parliament adopting two sets of legislation, one stipulating that the amount of overtime per person and year will increase from 250 to 400 hours, and  the other that a [...]

– 1st December – At the end of November, Russian Navy forces attacked and seized three Ukrainian Navy vessels in the Black Sea. As a result of this, the Ukrainian Government voted to [...]

Politics in Bulgaria in the last month looked much like the December air above Sofia:  misty, dirty, and dangerous. – On November 22nd the Russian newspaper Kommersant published an article [...]