As authoritarian control and renewed superpower tension dominate headlines, telling stories of Russia’s everyday...

'Post-truth' is supposedly the word of the year, but what does it actually mean for the future of politics?

Five years ago, thousands took to Russia’s streets to protest electoral fraud in what became a push against Putin’s...

Post-Soviet people have spent two decades mourning a society that never existed. Русский

Moldovans are diverse in culture, language and political preference, but united by a lack of faith in their leaders....

Moldova’s presidential race isn’t over yet. Neither are the country’s geopolitical divides or its long-standing...

A new film opens up the horrors of the Second World War, but will it enable reconciliation?

To this day, Lenin lies in state on Red Square. There’s still space in the mausoleum for more modern heroes – and...

A massive new construction project overlooking Georgia’s capital reveals the true extent of an oligarch’s grip on...

Amid widespread apathy and corruption, Georgia’s democracy faces all too familiar obstacles.

After ten years as head of Rosatom, Sergey Kirienko is now deputy head of Russia’s Presidential Administration. What...

In the aftermath of parliamentary elections, can Georgia build a more stable political culture?

In courting the country’s most loathed oligarch, the EU and US will only lose the sympathy of ordinary Moldovans.

For years, Georgia’s politics has been organised around the “search for a saviour”. But now this search has quietly...

A quarter century since the collapse of Soviet rule in Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan, where is the region now and...

Georgia’s church is independent of the state. How long before the state can free itself from the church?

As Azerbaijan votes on constitutional amendments today, let’s not forget the country’s political prisoners.

Sweeping reforms to Russia’s power ministries show that the FSB has the country’s security monopoly in its sights.

The results may be predictable, but Russia’s parliamentary elections hint at the next stage of regime mobilisation.

Across the USA, voters are pushing for public-matching systems to replace the influence of wealthy bankrollers in elections.