Ukraine’s new head of the armed forces, Mykhailo Drapatyi, faces a number of challenges in his efforts to pursue reform.

The CIA director’s unusual trip to Moscow came amid warnings that Russia could challenge the Alliance without starting another conventional war. Along NATO’s eastern flank, repeated incidents are ...

In Serbia and Republika Srpska, politicians, pro-government media, nationalist organisations and citizens mourned the death of Ratko Mladić, who died on August 27th. Despite his conviction as a war ...

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“The topic of Ukrainians’ presence in Poland has become very politically charged,” says Daryna Sydorenko, a senior advisor at the Alliance 24/08 NGO and coordinator for Observatory of Hate – See.

Taiwan typically maintains relations abroad through offices bearing the name ‘Taipei’ rather than ‘Taiwan’ – a diplomatic convention designed to avoid antagonizing Beijing. Lithuania broke with that ...

Romania is currently trying to out-engineer a river. Unit 1 at the Cernavodă nuclear plant went dark on July 28th after Danube flow rates fell to their lowest in decades. Unit 2 was next in line, ...

In Eastern Europe, a dispute over bears is forcing politicians to arbitrate between environmentalists and hunters. Although the forests of Romania and Slovakia account for just 5.5 per cent of ...

As we are well into the fifth year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, old questions are beginning to stir from beneath the surface, particularly: how should the West engage with Russia, if at ...

Driving through the quiet, agricultural landscape of northern Lithuania, where rolling fields are dotted with small farms and sleepy communities, one does not immediately expect to encounter a ...

As we are well into the fifth year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, old questions are beginning to stir from beneath the surface, particularly: how should the West engage with Russia, if at ...

History has never been a science for the Russian Federation; it has become a weapon, with propaganda serving as one of the primary methods and foundations for the mass manipulation of society and an ...