Kyiv’s Leverage Dwindles as the Crimean Water Crisis Comes to an End
"Zelenskyy and his allies in Kyiv and abroad need to understand that any compromise with Russia won’t fulfill all wishes of the Ukrainian side." Lance Bradley on Kyiv's diminishing leverage over [...]
April in Eastern Europe: will the Donbas conflict turn hot?
Nicholas Morgan on rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine. Will the frozen conflict in Donbas turn hot in the coming months?
Water Shortages and Recurrent Drought: Crimea after 2014
Crimea is drying up, and it has everything to do with political arm-wrestling between Russia and Ukraine. Almost seven years after the seizure of Crimea by the Russian Federation, the region is [...]
The Return to Romanticism: interview with Crimean Tatar folk artist Mamut Churlu
Mamut Churlu is part of the mass return of Tatar repatriates to the Crimean Peninsula at the fall of the Soviet Union. Churlu worked for years in Uzbekistan and Russia on researching folk art [...]
Why So Silent? Russia’s restraint in reaction to mass protests in Belarus
Agnieszka Widlaszewska ponders over why the Russian government has remained relatively silent with regards to the ongoing protests in Belarus.
What Does It Mean To Be Unrecognised And Unrepresented?
Since the early 1990s, an interesting phenomenon has emerged in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus – some states that, despite having their own government and state apparatus, lack [...]
Coming of Age
I went to Crimea alone for the first time in 2015. I took a backpack and my friend’s iPod with the complete Talk Talk discography. I call this series “Coming of Age” – [...]
Russia Monthly Digest: a new Internet law forbids disrespect, a potential nuclear arms crisis and Russia rounds up undercover agents
– On March 4th, Russian ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov warned that arms control was “in crisis” and claimed that “some politicians and generals in Washington” were beginning to think [...]
Russia Monthly Digest: United Russia’s Support Is Dwindling and a School Shooter Kills 21 in Crimea
– 5th of October – After the expulsion of two Russian spies from the Netherlands in September, analysts are warning that the Kremlin and Putin will not relax their spying techniques. The [...]