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Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: ​​Spy hunt in Montenegro; Armenia to boost military budget; torture investigations in Kazakhstan; national consultation on sanctions [...]

Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: ​​Milorad Dodik in Moscow; foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia meet in New York; Turkmens in Kazakhstan; European [...]

Sydney Millar writes about the increasingly tense relationship between the Kazakh and Russian leadership as the war in Ukraine rages on.

Next week is the premiere of Glasgow's first-ever Eastern European Film Festival. We interviewed one of the organizers, Kirill Kartashov, about dissident culture and film-making.

Katherine Leung reviews A Modern History of Russian Childhood: From the Late Imperial Period to the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Elizabeth White.

Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: ​​Cyberattack across The Balkans; clashes on the Armenia–Azerbaijan border; Xi and Pope Francis visit Kazakhstan; European [...]

If Gorbachev is remembered only for the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia may never escape from the clutches of autocracy, writes Hugo Blewett-Mundy.

In the mid-1920s, the borders of the five Soviet republics of Central Asia – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan – were created by the newly established Soviet state. [...]

In Skopje, museums are left to fall apart and crumble while expensive monuments are erected to support different narratives of Macedonian history.

Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: ​​Measures to end period poverty in Bosnia; deepening political crisis in Georgia; Putin-Xi summit to be held in Uzbekistan; Baltic [...]