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As of 16 January this year, all national print media in Ukraine have to be published in Ukrainian. While independence in 1991 brought a break from Moscow’s rule, and with it an emphasis on [...]

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.

Thirty years after the break-up of the Soviet Union and the creation of the Russian Federation, many still want to describe the Russian economy, society, and political scenes as “transitional”. [...]

Is Russia planning to once again become Europe's breadbasket? September editorial by Zack Kramer.

"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 [...]

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin is pushing a plan to unify some of the country’s federal subjects, a move that will have great impact on the North Caucasian region and the [...]

"Now, as the dust settles on Navalny’s return, it’s time to take stock of whether it was all worth it. Sadly, it is hard to argue that it was."

Joseph Elgars on how the recent election of Sadyr Japarov as Kyrgyzstan's new president might change domestic and international dynamics.

In the past months, the world’s attention was directed towards the US presidential elections and President Trump’s defeat and subsequent refusal to concede. Trump’s campaign [...]

As a consumer of British Media, it is all too easy to form a negative opinion of long-standing Russian President, Vladimir Putin. As outsiders looking in, we see annexation, the immense [...]