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Originally published on 15.11.2021. Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: Political crisis in North Macedonia continues, anniversary of Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire [...]

"What began as an absurd lie on behalf of the Turkmen government has become a real danger to Turkmenistan’s citizens." This month's Central Asia editorial by Sydney Millar.

On Monday staff of the Kyiv Post arrived at the newspaper's office, to find that they had been fired and the webpage shut down. They are now scrambling to save what's left while working on [...]

Rebecca Shaw revisits Russia's vibrant drag scene and dives into the controversies surrounding the country's first televised drag show, which premiered in October 2021.

Originally published on 08.11.2021. Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: Political crisis in North Macedonia, new amnesty legislation in Azerbaijan, Kazakh [...]

On 21 October, leaders from across the EU gathered in Brussels for what would be the final farewell ceremony to Germany’s departing chancellor, Angela Merkel. With warm tributes to her leadership [...]

Are you driving a Lamborgini or a Lada? Gloria Trifonova on how wealth inequality has contributed to the current political crisis in Bulgaria.

Originally published on 01.11.2021. Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: An upcoming gathering of European far-right leaders in Kosovo, local elections [...]

Martina Bergamaschi explores the new art scene of the Ukrainian Donbas and speaks to the founder of Gareleya Neotodryosh, Vitaly Matukhno.

As we mark the one-year anniversary of the brutal 44-day war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region (known in Armenia as Artsakh), many have reflected on the conflict [...]