Recent protests across Albania and Europe are helping to highlight deep-seated problems in the country. What began as ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina's attainment of EU candidate status in 2022 generated significant optimism regarding the acceleration ...

In Serbia, nationwide patriotic celebrations throughout the year have become part of the political culture. However, the streets of Belgrade have recently witnessed a rather uncommon number of ...

The contribution of Ukraine’s Roma community to defence asks questions as to the country’s post-war future. A truly inclusive ...

After reporting from the frontlines stretching from southern Donetsk Oblast through Sloviansk to the Kharkiv region – where we met several Ukrainian brigades and spoke with dozens of soldiers – we ...

In late September 2025, a delegation from Abkhazia, Georgia’s Russia-backed breakaway region, travelled to China to participate in the Food2China Expo held in the city of Guangzhou. Supported by the ...

It is not necessary to repeat arguments why Russia failed in Ukraine, as one can find these in numerous analytical reports. Moscow has not been able to achieve any of its strategic goals in four years ...

Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in autumn 2025 have become systematic and highly targeted: the attacks focus primarily on substations, heat generation facilities and high-voltage ...

Ukraine’s parliament and presidency have remained unchanged since 2019. Under normal circumstances, the country would have held parliamentary elections in 2023 and presidential elections in 2024.

The Ukrainian author Andriy Lyubka is known for his keen sense of Ukraine’s global role, as well as his observations about contemporary Ukrainian life. His raucous novel Carbide followed Tys, a ...

Like all of the conflicts that broke out as a result of the USSR’s collapse, the war in Nagorno-Karabakh has also helped to define the region’s football. This is not just true in Karabakh itself, but ...

In 2014, around a billion US dollars vanished from Moldova’s banking system, stolen from one of Europe’s poorest countries. The businessman later convicted in his absence of orchestrating the theft, ...