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Agnieszka Widlaszewska ponders over why the Russian government has remained relatively silent with regards to the ongoing protests in Belarus.

In the process of formulating its budget for 2021-27 in July, the EU took a major step towards further integration in the form of a €750 million recovery fund alongside an adoption of the [...]

Pavlo Cherchatyi on how Russia’s intervention in Ukraine in 2014 became a catalyst for a uniting Ukrainian national identity.

When Volodymyr Zelensky won the Presidential election, one of his key promises was to end the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Upon his unconventional methods and a more moderate stance than [...]

During some recent wanderings on the internet, I came across a most particular subreddit: “Tartaria”. At first, I thought the subreddit was dedicated to some fantasy or steampunk fictional world, [...]

Louis Train review Rock, Paper, Scissors: "a master-class in noticing."

What does it take to succeed in Russia? Wits, talent, and wiliness – or so claims Joshua Yaffah, the author of Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia. [...]

Louis Train reviews Pravda Ha Ha by Rory MacLean: "an interesting travelogue and a badly under-researched political text".

Louis Train reviews The New Battle for the Atlantic by Magnus Nordenman.

Louis on the Seventh Studio Case and the trial of director Kirill Serebrennikov.