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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 [...]

Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: New Mladić plaque in Bosnia; Russians flock to Georgia en masse; pressure on independent media’s war coverage in [...]

Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: Ukrainian refugees in Poland; Serbia as ‘the only free country in Europe;’ Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine apply for EU membership; [...]

Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: Russia invades Ukraine; Serbia struggles to respond; Southern Caucasus de facto states applaud Donbas recognition; mixed reactions [...]

Amanda Sonesson reviews Vladimir Lorchenkov's dark and humorous novel The Good Life Elsewhere.

Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: Electoral surprise in Turkmenistan, Kosovo’s independence celebration, strengthened state control of religion in [...]

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 [...]