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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 [...]

With Russia on the brink of invading Ukraine, this textbook propaganda weapon must be effectively countered. Provokatsiya. Follow Russian politics for long enough, and one soon becomes [...]

Very few political leaders in the West talk about Vladimir Putin and his threat to international security with more courage than Kaja Kallas. Estonia’s first-ever female prime minister has not [...]

Agnieszka Widlaszewska on the relevance of the CSTO in light of the organisation's first-ever deployment of collective forces to support the Kazakhstani authorities in regaining control after [...]

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”. [...]

During the 2021 German Federal Election campaign, German Green Party candidate Annalena Baerbock repeatedly came out as a staunch opponent of the then near-complete North Stream 2 (NS2) gas [...]

France took over the rotating presidency of the EU at the start of the year and it hasn’t exactly got off to a good start. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, hopes to use the EU presidency to [...]

Francis Farrell on the seemingly impending threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

December marked 30 years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Be it the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century, a return to Europe or the beginning of a new era of [...]