Whether you’re in Mariupol or Margate, politics has become an organic part of the tabloid press. Our media should change to tackle this.
The resurgence of fighting with Azerbaijan could hinder progressive mobilisation in Armenia, but recent environmental initiatives reveal the appetite for resistance to the economy of extraction.
Across eastern Europe, US engagement against Russia is having an adverse effect on grassroots protesters – and no easy solution is forthcoming.
There are signs that a new movement is emerging against austerity in Lithuania, but it will have to contend with a new militarised nationalism.
Пенитенциарная система Белоруссии – одна из самых закрытых в мире. Иностранного журналиста не пустят в тюрьму, а заключенные вряд ли будут откровенны - за любую жалобу их ждет наказание.
Seventy years after the war, many of Russia’s dead still lie scattered in fields and bogs across the eastern front. The Russian state has no problem instrumentalising their memories to shut down discussion. Русский
Our discussion of history politics and mythmaking in Ukraine is desperately un-nuanced. We need to restore complexity to our understanding of social and cultural hybridity — past and present. Українською
Russia’s snap military mobilisation drills are an internal exercise. But troublesome relations with the west could still have unintended (and unpleasant) consequences.
As Europe's sanctions resolve against Russia evaporates, Ukraine's domestic political contest is heating up — Kyiv is turning its sights on the constitutional court.
Georgia's visa liberalisation process with the European Union could be delayed. This is bad news for a fragile democracy.
Dagestan's Khasavyurt is a city that never quite fit into Russia's power vertical — and local government is starting to feel the consequences. RU
В городе, который 18 лет жил по своим правилам, республиканская власть наводит порядок – как слон в посудной лавке. English
