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The last frontier. Europe’s psychological war - New Eastern Europe

Towards a new world disorder? - New Eastern Europe

Issue 1-2/2026: Europe in the new disorder - New Eastern Europe

Bukhara delights with art, while the authorities count political dividends - New Eastern Europe

"In Canada, Ukrainians are commonly perceived as a family-oriented and industrious community"

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In the waters of Salamis: on Russia’s kulturkampf in Romania - New Eastern Europe

Does the meeting between Zelenskyy and Tsikhanouskaya mark the beginning of a new approach towards Belarus? - New Eastern Europe

Old problems and modern solutions: technology and the struggle for election integrity in Bosnia and Herzegovina  - New Eastern Europe

Shoring up the Balkans: NATO infrastructure and a warning for democracy - New Eastern Europe

The art of no deal: Trump’s rhetoric on Russia’s war in Ukraine in 2025 - New Eastern Europe

Gold in the age of sanctions: How the Russia-Ukraine war reshaped the global bullion market - New Eastern Europe

The Kremlin’s poker face - New Eastern Europe

America embraces imperialism and ditches Europe - New Eastern Europe

Ukraine’s fields, the EU border - New Eastern Europe

The western delusion of the Russian opposition - New Eastern Europe

Zero margins: Model shows Europe’s long odds in a Baltic war - New Eastern Europe

The Ukrainian model of societal resilience: why the country did not collapse under full-scale war - New Eastern Europe

The case for a self-regulating ceasefire in Ukraine - New Eastern Europe

The European Union’s Black Sea strategy - New Eastern Europe

Trump’s fake peace plan for Ukraine - New Eastern Europe

Poland’s borderland on fire - New Eastern Europe

From revolution to souvenirs

Goodbye communism - New Eastern Europe

Issue 6 2025: Remembering yesterday, today - New Eastern Europe

One year of Georgia’s unbreakable resistance, as told by its prisoners of conscience - New Eastern Europe

Ukraine’s energy defence: how cogeneration and decentralized solutions are shaping a new model of resilience - New Eastern Europe

“You will be taught – and you will become Russians”: how Ukrainian teenagers resist Russian re-education - New Eastern Europe

Tbilisi’s high stakes bet on Beijing: what is the price to pay? - New Eastern Europe

Turkey’s policy in Central Asia - New Eastern Europe

Sanctions against Serbia’s Petroleum Industry pose a challenge for Vučić - New Eastern Europe

Underpowered: how energy limits Europe’s AI future - New Eastern Europe

Priorities of the new coalition government in the Czech Republic following the elections - New Eastern Europe

Stopping the war through coercion: Can Trump still bring peace in Ukraine? - New Eastern Europe

From ghost towns to growing settlements: Armenia’s village life - New Eastern Europe

“Putin is the biggest child kidnapper in the world” - New Eastern Europe

From captivity to freedom - New Eastern Europe

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Europe’s heavy cost of dependency - New Eastern Europe

What determines whether a country supports Ukraine? - New Eastern Europe

Democracy in Moldova: can civil society deliver? - New Eastern Europe

Strengthening the civil society's resilience in Serbia - New Eastern Europe

There is still time to pressure Georgian authorities - New Eastern Europe

Belarusian folklore as a language of expression during repressions - New Eastern Europe

Russia’s long game in Africa and Latin America - New Eastern Europe

Resistance, resilience, recovery: Ukraine’s civil society in wartime - New Eastern Europe

Issue 5/2025: On shaky ground - New Eastern Europe

In Ukraine, resilience is a matter of survival - New Eastern Europe

Propaganda’s mixed response to Russia’s provocation against Poland - New Eastern Europe

Political statements against the Armenian Apostolic Church. A clash of geopolitical interests? - New Eastern Europe

Talk Eastern Europe - Episode 236: Tirana: A better city for all?

Consequences and complications of Russian drones in NATO airspace - New Eastern Europe

There is no smell of peace here - New Eastern Europe

“We have no family of plans for European defence, as NATO does” - New Eastern Europe

Is the Russian opposition even relevant? - New Eastern Europe

From Verdun to the 21st century - New Eastern Europe

Talk Eastern Europe - Episode 234: Trump’s quest for peace in Ukraine

The Russo-Ukrainian War. Is a “Dayton-2” possible? - New Eastern Europe

Putin won Alaska - New Eastern Europe

Scenarios for the end of the war - New Eastern Europe

How the United States can stop India from buying Russian oil - New Eastern Europe

Not just BRICS: building a Russia-India-Saudi axis - New Eastern Europe

Refusing to serve in Ukraine, he deserted the Russian army - New Eastern Europe

A recipe for an unfair stalemate, not a just peace - New Eastern Europe

Hybrid storm over the North: Russia’s grey zone offensive in the Nordic region - New Eastern Europe

European academia studies Russia too little, too refined, and too slowly - New Eastern Europe

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Armenia's shifting foreign policy towards the European Union. Perspectives and challenges - New Eastern Europe

Swinging the deceptive pendulum: why Azerbaijan and Russia are not heading toward a radical drift - New Eastern Europe

How Zelenskyy undermined Ukraine's path to EU membership and what happens next - New Eastern Europe

The reassurance force for Ukraine needs a strategically mature Europe - New Eastern Europe

A calculated gesture? The release of Siarhei Tsikhanouski and the future of the Belarusian democratic forces - New Eastern Europe

Authoritarian sandbox: Belarus as a testing ground for 21st century repression - New Eastern Europe

With a view to the Baltic Sea - New Eastern Europe

Inside Viktor Orbán’s worst political crisis yet - New Eastern Europe

How President-elect Nawrocki could lock Poland into a fossil fuel past - New Eastern Europe

Chess is the ultimate low-tech answer to the challenge of AI - New Eastern Europe

Latvia's path to becoming Europe’s drone powerhouse - New Eastern Europe

Why Ukraine must bet it all on Putin's greatest weakness – Crimea - New Eastern Europe

Nordic-Baltic total defence: easier said than done - New Eastern Europe

Thirty years after the Srebrenica genocide, Bosnia and Herzegovina remains a land suspended between memory and oblivion - New Eastern Europe

Southern Europe: a soft target in Russia’s expanding hybrid war - New Eastern Europe

Issue 4/2025: Rebalancing the Baltic Sea region - New Eastern Europe

If the EU wants peace, it needs to prepare for war - New Eastern Europe

Russia's psychological operations in Georgia: a multifaceted strategy of control - New Eastern Europe

Ukraine's capital under attack - New Eastern Europe

The Tallinn question - New Eastern Europe

📩 NATO's hard bargain

Armenia’s precarious position on Iran - New Eastern Europe

Episode 227: Ukraine’s cultural heritage under fire

Repression in Azerbaijan - New Eastern Europe

NATO must pivot East – or risk irrelevance - New Eastern Europe

The Kosovo-Serbia dispute amid global turmoil: a defining test for the EU - New Eastern Europe

The Nagorno-Karabakh refugee problem is still an unresolved issue more than one year after the deportation - New Eastern Europe

Episode 226: Poland after presidential elections

Russia’s hybrid war on NATO’s Eastern Flank quietly escalates - New Eastern Europe

Inside a new Cold War brewing in an Eastern European capital - New Eastern Europe

Resisting foreign interference: Poland’s presidential election and the Russian challenge - New Eastern Europe

Zelenskyy has a lot of cards - New Eastern Europe

What Poland's election teaches us about Trump's war on Harvard - New Eastern Europe

How Russia’s neighbours re-evaluated Victory Day after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine - New Eastern Europe

Most pro-democracy operations were shut down in conflict-affected areas due to the Trump cuts - here's why that was a grave mistake - New Eastern Europe

How Romania defeated populism: a blueprint for Europe - New Eastern Europe

Ending the OHR’s “Bonn Powers” to save Bosnia and Herzegovina (again) - New Eastern Europe

Why the Trump-Putin negotiations on Ukraine might bury the Eastern Partnership - New Eastern Europe

Episode 223: Disability inclusion in Uzbekistan: a blind spot for funders in Central Asia

A time for unconventional leaders: Croatian assistance to Ukraine - New Eastern Europe

The Russo-Ukrainian War after four months of Trump: what is next? - New Eastern Europe

Bulgaria’s Eurozone games - New Eastern Europe

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Beating the blockade: why western sanctions failed to cripple Russia - New Eastern Europe

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Pope Francis and his complicated legacy in Ukraine - New Eastern Europe

Why Russia’s military moves in 2025 show it is not ready to stop - New Eastern Europe

Russia is stealing Ukrainian grain. It wants to do so without any restrictions - New Eastern Europe

Russia’s war is undermining the world order - New Eastern Europe

Europe at a crossroads: strategic security dependency in the age of uncertainty - New Eastern Europe

Will Trump’s peace-making efforts increase the likelihood of a bigger war? - New Eastern Europe

Issue 3/2025: Negotiating peace? - New Eastern Europe

Ukraine is a victim of Russian and western imperialism - New Eastern Europe

The end of post-socialism and the opportunity for a European public service media house - New Eastern Europe

Stopify: taking matters into your own hands - New Eastern Europe

Jetztzeit is now: democratic erosion from above, civic resistance from below - New Eastern Europe

American-Russian rapprochement as a threat to Europe - New Eastern Europe

The death of frozen conflicts: why Ukraine must win - New Eastern Europe

The complexity of the peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan - New Eastern Europe

Moscow’s tool of confrontation in the Baltic Sea region - New Eastern Europe

Trapped in Belarus - Brief Eastern Europe

Poland is defending Europe from Russia’s hybrid war - New Eastern Europe

“All wars come at the expense of human life. No one thinks about the little man” - New Eastern Europe

Never again - but what exactly? The German memory culture and Russia's war against Ukraine - New Eastern Europe

“War is always somewhere around”: a review of Jen Stout’s Night Train to Odesa - New Eastern Europe

History rhymes: intellectual resistance and state repression in Georgia - New Eastern Europe

Episode 215: Why Putin doesn’t want peace

Polish perspective on EU-South America trade deal - New Eastern Europe

Roma helped defend Ukraine – now they must help rebuild it  - New Eastern Europe

Protests in Slovakia: reports from Bratislava - New Eastern Europe

The Three Seas Initiative is dead. Trump should revamp it before China does - New Eastern Europe

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was far from being just “Poland” - New Eastern Europe

Issue 1-2/2025: Layers of Legacy - New Eastern Europe

Baltic tensions rise as Russia’s “phantom fleet” strikes cables - New Eastern Europe

Black Sea oil spill: political aspects of an environmental disaster - New Eastern Europe

Same old: Lukashenka’s centrally planned economy is a burden for Belarus - New Eastern Europe

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“We rolled out a red carpet for a war of aggression” - New Eastern Europe

On narratives and fairytales: Serbia’s authoritarian leader’s playbook - New Eastern Europe

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Ukraine's post-war recovery: financing, governance and reform strategies - New Eastern Europe

Lithuanian foreign policy: new position or new direction? - New Eastern Europe

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We need to fight for democracy in Slovakia once more - New Eastern Europe

Navalny: a patriot and an imperialist - New Eastern Europe

Serbian students in the fight against the authoritarian regime - New Eastern Europe

Russia as the “weakest link” in the international order at the beginning and end of the 20th century? – a comparative analysis - New Eastern Europe

Why India must distance itself from Lukashenka’s Belarus - New Eastern Europe

Auschwitz-Birkenau. Death at a wave of a finger - New Eastern Europe

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Do not appease evil - New Eastern Europe

The myth of the Serbian-Russian friendship - New Eastern Europe

How Russia's full-scale invasion has accelerated the flooding of Donbas coal mines - New Eastern Europe

Montenegro’s fight for EU membership amid Serbian revanchism - New Eastern Europe

How Russia's full-scale invasion has accelerated the flooding of Donbas coal mines - New Eastern Europe

Issue 6/2024: Age of uncertainty - New Eastern Europe

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Polish-Russian relations: a Cold War of gestures and new lows - New Eastern Europe

Serbia: the construction accident that triggered nationwide protests - New Eastern Europe

Georgian Dream turns into Georgian Nightmare: election fraud, escalating protests, and a confrontation with the EU - New Eastern Europe

For your freedom and ours: Georgia at the edge of the abyss - New Eastern Europe

Edi Rama’s illiberalism is flying under the EU’s radar - New Eastern Europe

North Macedonia’s EU membership drifts further away - New Eastern Europe

While Moldova is making progress, Georgia is falling back - New Eastern Europe

Chechnya’s instability: implications for Russia and the EU - New Eastern Europe

Ukraine’s darkest hour - New Eastern Europe

📩 Kosovo-Serbia relations in 2025

When Czechs knew freedom - New Eastern Europe

An open letter from Georgia - New Eastern Europe

Is Ukraine’s energy infrastructure ready for the upcoming winter? - New Eastern Europe

The uncertain conclusion to Russia’s war in Ukraine

📩 Georgians take the streets once again

What the world could learn from Ukraine

📩 From ballot to ballot

How Ukraine’s Kursk operation challenges non-western countries to come out - New Eastern Europe

In the Western Balkans, Brussels must side with North Macedonia in its dispute with Bulgaria - New Eastern Europe

Romania and Moldova: Europe’s “special relationship”

The lasting effects of Russia’s occupation of Chernobyl

Ukraine's victory plan: what is the Ukrainian vision of the end of the war

What is happening in Belarusian education and academia four years after the presidential elections of August 2020?

Talk Eastern Europe – Episode 200 – Livestream!

Georgia's dream of autocracy

It may become a lonely fight for Ukraine

Following disputed and violent elections, Georgia edges closer to Russia

The votes of the Moldovan diaspora changed the results

Conscription mandates would be a disaster for Balkan entrepreneurs

China, Iran and Russia: a curious alliance?

📩 What the 2024 US election means for CEE

The Lithuanian Song Festival: 100 years of tradition

A crisis for which nobody is prepared

📩 Georgia's path forward?

Andrey Kurkov: navigating war, fiction and Ukrainian identity

Between pro-Russian rhetoric and pragmatic cooperation with Ukraine

EU referendum in Moldova. An easy target for Kremlin propagandists?

New ways to adapt. The economies of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine in the second quarter

The French far right and Putin’s Russia: a recent and surprising love affair

The power of the Baltic Way

How Viktor Orbán is going global

Foreign agent laws in the authoritarian playbook

Defending democracy in Georgia

What’s wrong with Telegram?

The impact of western sanctions on Belarus

Defending liberalism in Bulgaria

Issue 5/2024: Will democracy survive?

Fighting global authoritarianism

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Chișinău at a crossroads? City mayor discusses the refugee crisis, EU integration and Moldova’s future

Giving a voice to those who can no longer speak

Putin is caught like a rabbit in the headlights

What if Ukraine will lose? What if Ukraine will win?

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Belarus's political prisoner dilemma

Despite mounting evidence, Russia denies blame for deadly strike on Kyiv children's hospital

The 80th anniversary of a tragedy that continues until today

Shades of grey

Nascent, destroyed, aspiring: three cinematic visions of Dushanbe

Democracy or autocracy: what is the choice about?

Ukrainian media at war. Battles behind, battles ahead

Ukraine is creating a system of large-scale humanitarian demining, for which there are no models in the world today

Russian aggression against Ukraine: No peace in sight

Is Klaipėda worth a war?

Seven favourite hidden narratives of Russian propaganda

Securing stability: powering Ukraine's defence production surge

Why dream of Kharkiv?

Hard Labour: Britain’s new government looks eastward

Ukraine’s IT hacker army requires a non-technical solution to scale

Lessons about cyber warfare from Russia’s war against Ukraine

How YouTube helps Russia share how great it is in raw and subtle ways

An attack on the most vulnerable

By allowing Western Balkans democracy to falter for two decades, the EU has trapped itself

Belgrade hosts the first All-Serb Assembly

Against all odds: finding hope amidst the fire in north-eastern Ukraine

Exploring crime fiction, war and Ukrainian literature

Hungarian metamorphosis: from returning to Europe to occupying Brussels

Our Serbian friend, the genocide glorifier-in-chief

The Baltics have grown up. Do not call them new member states

Navigating new security threats requires a change in focus

Ukrainian women leaders, as the new civil elite of Ukraine, in the face of the challenges of the Russo-Ukrainian War

Adolescence is over. Time for updates to the Central European growth model

What will Ukraine's path to the EU look like?

Give European democracy a chance. An enlarged Europe turns twenty

Amid war, Nova Post’s growth connects Ukraine’s large diaspora

Countdown to war – how populism grew while democracy fell silent

Another populist threat to NATO stability?

A referendum at the crossroads: Moldova’s democratic test amidst presidential elections

Putin’s pyrrhic gains in Ukraine

Recovery, reforms, or reconstruction? Results of the Ukraine Recovery Conference 2024

Russia won the propaganda war in Barcelona

How the expected Eurosceptic surge in June’s European elections may strengthen the European Parliament

Elections in North Macedonia: the importance of election observation in young democracies

So no one is left behind

Why pacifism kills

Through empathy you also become a witness

Everything you need to know about Serbian sentiments: from economic worries to foreign policy

Serbian director finds way to confront dark past

An involuntary war of economic models? The economies of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine in the first quarter of 2024

“One formula. Forty-eight nations”: a review of Russian Colonialism 101: How to Occupy a Neighbor and Get Away with It

Murivat Beknazarov’s art as memory

Minority communities and their future in Ukraine – the case of Roma

Georgia has now reached a crucial moment

A Eurovision party with CEE

Georgians want a better future

While Western Europeans smell smoke, we see fire

Episode 178: Anti-Gender Movement in Croatia

Gold must not become Russia’s anti-sanction silver bullet

Combatting disinformation by state agencies: the case of the Swedish Psychological Defence Agency

The double murder that traumatized North Macedonia

Why the “Russian law” is so dangerous for Georgia

Kosovo's Council of Europe aspirations spark controversy in Serbia

Finding Sweden’s role in a new NATO

High time for Armenia’s Euro-Atlantic integration

Another Russia is possible

When will a different future seem possible for Russia?

Henry Kissinger's legacy and European geopolitics

Defence diplomacy: Ukraine and the Global South

Battle for democracy continues in Georgia: why the EU cannot afford to overlook it

It is time to take the improvement of the Ukraine-EU border seriously

“The Devils” and Putin: a Dostoevskian reflection

Constant escape – how women live in Khurcha, near the occupation line

The diaspora, the meaning of family, and Ukraine’s difficult 20th century: a review of Megan Buskey’s Ukraine is Not Dead Yet

Episode 176: Photophobia – a film about children during war

Occupiers declare war against Georgian language in Abkhazia

Dark clouds over Azerbaijan

Ivanishvili’s third coming. Georgian democracy ahead of elections

“More air defence systems is the most effective means of supporting our power system”

Navigating the new reality: Armenians seeking adjustment after leaving Nagorno-Karabakh

The "Deceased Hope": on the death of Alexei Navalny

Is Abkhazia being absorbed by Russia?

Episode 175: Genocide denial and the far-right in the Western Balkans

Is peace possible between Armenia and Azerbaijan?

The legacy of the displaced in the South Caucasus: from yesterday till today

Issue 3/2024: South Caucasus out of balance

Belarus and Russia: not in one but different baskets

Democratic backsliding and democratic resilience in Slovakia

Episode 174: Belarus “elections” reveal regime’s next steps

Russia: weaponizing democracy to better fight the West

The growing dangers of European radical populism for Europe and Ukraine

NEE Think Tank School 2024: Application Form

Reflecting on New Eastern Europe's Winter School

How was NATO won? Assessing Poland's record in NATO after 25 years

The (in)famous Dovbush. A robber of trust?

Presidential pseudo-election in Russia: what does it tell us about Putin's regime?

Lost Legacy? Georgia and the Rose Revolution twenty years later

Avdiivka's Fall: a microcosm of failed western approaches to the Russia-Ukraine war

"Nations that do things out of self-interest are much stronger allies than nations that act out of sympathy"

Estonia aims to help Europe’s rare earth supply chain

My soul is in Kyiv

Ukraine and NATO. Five lessons after Russia’s full-scale invasion

Zelenskyy’s formula for peace

Through Lendvai’s eyes. A unique perspective on Austrian politics

The world according to BelTA

The return of ideology

Post-Lukashism. Prospects for change in Belarus after regime collapse

Episode 167: Disinformation narratives in elections – the case of Poland

Reversing the Polish drift to the illiberal path

Remote grieving: how Belarusian refugees face the death of someone close

“A massive gamble”

Belarus: new elections to preserve a tired dictatorship

North to the future?

What Ukraine can teach America

War, inflation and central banks

The paradox of Belarusian authoritarianism

The new dualism of Belarusian politics

Belarus between a difficult yesterday and an uncertain tomorrow

Issue 1-2/2024: Elections without choice

The Patriarchate of Constantinople is finalizing the creation of its own structures for the Orthodox Church in Lithuania

On the failure of the Russian and Soviet "Hegemonic Projects"

Is fighting ethnic activism the new big trend for Russia’s authorities?

Propaganda, a “Cursed Region” and the Yanukovych disease: a review of Olena Stiazhkina’s Ukraine, War, Love: A Donetsk Diary

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Is fighting ethnic activism the new big trend for Russia’s authorities?

A train to the war

Gazprom's very public suicide

Is the West worth saving?

Land of contrast: a review of John Watkins’ “Enver Hoxha’s Long Shadow: Travels in Albania”

“Every Ukrainian is a hero”

Episode 163: Can the West keep up its support for Ukraine in 2024?

Local governments are the foundation of democracy

Antisemitism: the foundation of the Polish nation?

In vitro boom in Ukraine

Elections in Serbia: a testimony of autocracy versus incompetence

From a horrific day in Prague

Pride and tensions in Kosovo

“We have never been stronger”: A first-hand report from Ukraine

Why it is not just Putin’s war: the collective responsibility of Russians

45,000 body bags

Episode 162: Crackdowns intensify in Azerbaijan

The history of the Japanese consul who saved Belarusian Jews

Talk Eastern Europe Listener Survey 2023

Georgian citizens prepare for 2024

There are just too few of us

The Czech government’s popularity problem

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How one border shaped another. Polish volunteers on the parallels in refugee aid

Episode 161: Serbia's Snap Elections: Extraordinary Campaigning in Extraordinary Elections

The need for decolonisation

The need for decolonisation

The way it was: a review of Zvi Preigerzon’s When the Menorah Fades

The need for decolonisation

Roma refugees from Ukraine face additional adversity

From Kyiv to Korea. How the shockwaves of war reverberated across Eurasia

Grasping for hope: the residents of a village in Kharkiv Oblast and their fight to rebuild their life

“Peace is only possible based on justice”

A story about the Elbe. A story about Europe

The power and impotence of "open societies" – a historical reflection on current events

Tbilisi as a venue for Azerbaijani-Armenian negotiations?

A mountain of controversies leaves Czech-China relations with little room for progress

Off-SHORe politics: how Gagauzia was sold to a pro-Russian oligarch

The VoiCEE podcast: Georgia's progress towards EU membership and how it affects the region

The EU bet on the Georgian people with its candidacy decision

Zelenskyy’s formula for peace

Back to the future?: the return of David Cameron and Ukraine

Hazards to Georgia’s foreign policy: A strategic partnership with China?

Three focus areas for Moldova’s EU-integration

Polish encounters

Doom and gloom for Georgia’s EU candidacy?

The Russian-Chinese asymmetry

Curbing China’s sway in Eastern Europe

One year after Kherson’s liberation: a report from the city

Leading a rethink of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

China’s role as a pro-Russian mediator in ending the Russia-Ukraine war

Episode 158: Repressions in Belarus continue

Mapping scenarios for Belarus

Montenegro’s new government: another step closer to Belgrade

Migrants on the border (of the Polish imagination)

Ukraine: For Your Freedom and Ours?

Between “Trojan horses” and an “Anti-China Vanguard”?

Euromaidan: Chronicles of a networked revolt

The Sino-Baltic dynamic in the age of Sino-Russian synergy

A treatise on guilt

China and Russia: a strategic partnership with many limits

Issue 6/2023: The Dragon in Europe

Train by Andrzej Zaręba

Georgian Dream’s shenanigans continue

Romania’s Plauru hamlet: a collateral victim of the Russian invasion

Episode 157: Moldova’s political hurdles remain after local elections

Bulgaria must seize the moment and tackle Russian influence

The “Sled Dogs” of reform: civil society organisations transforming Ukraine

Nakhchivan, an Azerbaijani exclave that could cause new problems for Armenia

Anything but a “Little Putin”: why Serbia under Vučić is not Russia under Putin

Episode 156: New government in Slovakia promises stability

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More than just a joke: a review of Olga Onuch & Henry E. Hale’s The Zelensky Effect

Gangster Government: the communist-era “anti-social engineering” at the heart of Russia’s descent into barbarity

Georgia at a crossroads: seizing its third opportunity

Episode 155: Poland's future in the balance after elections

Is there any “endgame” in the Russian-Ukrainian war?

The implications of Russia's currency crisis for Putin's war plans

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Nagorno-Karabakh seen from Yerevan

Episode 154: Nagorno-Karabakh: Repercussions and Ramifications

Wind of change

“On the hierarchy of Jewish values, life is at the top”

The international community must act to bury Azerbaijan’s hatchet

Journalism Mentorship 2024 - Ratiu Forum

Could Slovakia go rogue after the elections?

Polish-Ukrainian relations: between the diplomatic crisis and another strategic communications failure

Episode 153: Russia’s influence in the South Caucasus

To dissolve, or not to dissolve: what makes Russia’s indigenous movements suspicious of re-federalisation proposals?

The red idol, or the destruction of the mind

In the shadow of impeachment

Poland’s future on the ballot in October

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A modern-day ethnic cleansing: Karabakh Armenians flee as Azerbaijan takes over

Military operation in Karabakh: the final battle?

Episode 152: Heightened tensions as Kosovo-Serbia dispute continues

The global costs of a Russian-Ukrainian truce

Questioning the irreversibility of European integration: implications for Moldova - New Eastern Europe

Rethinking Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies in the West

The anatomy of betrayal

The icon and the sarcophagus: why the Golden Ring matters to the Kremlin in 2023

The anatomies of evil

How vulnerable groups live in Belarus in the era of mass repressions

Kundera’s warnings are still relevant today

The Kakhovka Dam explosion as Russia’s scorched earth tactic

Episode 151: Ukraine is committed to victory

Former Yugoslav nations deserve peace

No school for the children of Izium

Nationalism is still a potent force in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Slovakia’s parliamentary election: the leaders and the kingmakers

The spirit of Estonia’s tradition of song

Jewish connections in the Balkans and Eastern Europe

The weaponisation of music in today’s Russia

The long exodus

Russia's (fading) influence

Serbia continues to walk the tightrope

Slovaks seek a sense of normalcy

Twenty years later: exposing the hidden cause for the delayed EU integration of the Western Balkans

Kosovo-Serbia dialogue: a perpetual state of stagnation

The impact of the war in Ukraine on the future of Europe: what if Ukraine becomes a nuclear state?

Multilingual and multiple minorities. Who are the Balkan Jews?

Re-federalisation: avoiding the risk of Russia’s collapse

Orwell’s warning of totalitarianism for today

Issue 5/2023: The Western Balkans. A bridge from Europe to Europe?

“Keep Russia out, America in, and Europe up”

Cell #18

Diplomatic efforts with Putin are futile

Ukraine should become a key stakeholder in Central and Eastern European energy security

Episode 149: The role of sanctions

The West should treat Kazakhstan’s political shift with caution

Astrakhan: Russia’s least Russian oblast at the crossroads of emerging separatisms

Azerbaijan tightens blockade as Armenia calls for assistance

“Freedom is the most important thing for human beings, it is something we all have in common.”

The Bloody Treaty

Betting big on Middle Eastern dictatorships will not end well for Putin

"Poetry as witness during a time of great atrocity”

How the western political elite can move from uncertainty to certainty in the Russian war

Slovenia under water

Going native: Russian studies in the West

In the beginning was the violence

Why it is not just Putin’s war: the collective responsibility of Russians

Putin's stumble with lacklustre Russia-Africa Summit presents an opportunity

“What happens in Ukraine will have an immediate effect on us”

Episode 148: Roma communities in conflict zones - challenges and lessons learned

Igor Girkin/Strelkov: when the radical becomes too radical

Saakashvili's plight and the continued unravelling of Georgia-Ukraine relations

Nuclear alternative

Financing Ukraine’s reconstruction: sources and principles

Particularities of contemporary Russian society can be traced both to history and Russia's oral culture

Saudi Arabia's balancing act: Navigating geopolitical waters amidst the Russo-Ukrainian War

Episode 147: Did NATO deliver on Ukraine’s expectations?

There is more to Putin’s visa-free gambit than meets the eye

Poland’s Third Way seeks to break political duopoly

Episode 146: The European Political Community enters the stage

What lessons can be learned in the fog of war? -

Episode 145: Prigozhin's march of justice fails to reach its destination

Issue 3-4/2023: Beyond the Fence - New Eastern Europe

Femicides in Kosovo: a product of a society that normalises gender violence

The point of no return

Episode 144: Documenting the power of human unity

Russia’s Wagner rebellion: how will Putin emerge from the crisis?

‘I don’t feel safe anymore.’ Belarusians in Lithuania – yesterday’s friends, today’s foes?

Shelling over the big water

“Justice is the best prevention”

The blind spot of the West

Episode 143: Is Bulgaria's governmental crisis coming to an end?

Obstacles to Russian decolonisation

Security threat or arbitrary rejection? Belarusian exiles battle with Lithuania’s migration policies

Estonia’s urban-rural divide: Cracks at home become a chasm abroad

“This was an election campaign dominated by the context of the war in Ukraine”

The role of illiberalism in shaping European debates

Episode 142: Polish politics heats up

Uncertainty lies ahead for Georgia

Turkey: Erdoğan secures third term as president

Episode 141: Georgia flying away towards Russia

How to win this war?

Nothing new in the East? The Polish Orientalism

Armenia: Russia’s backdoor to circumvent sanctions

Episode 140: Turkish elections and the wider geopolitical impact

"We see you, Russia, and we know how to counter your practices.”

The war in Ukraine looks paradoxical and rather obscure from a Croatian perspective

Episode 139: Born with a pencil in his hand. A conversation with NEE’s illustrator, Andrzej Zaręba

Disgruntled Iran poses security threats to Azerbaijan

The end of a friendship? Orbán’s opportunism on Russia may break the Polish-Hungarian axis in the EU

Za wolność naszą i waszą - Europejskie Centrum Solidarności

The abandoned homes of Poland’s most tourist-heavy region

UKraine 2023: How Eurovision in Britain is promoting Ukraine - New Eastern Europe

Episode 137: Waiting for Ukraine's counteroffensive

Episode 136: The Role of Belarus in Russia’s war against Ukraine

The unconscious imperialism of a convinced anti-imperialist

Issue 2/2023: Inside the information war

“North Macedonia has made a clear national decision”

The Russo-Belarusian Union State is here

The fall of Milo Djukanović heralds an uncertain new dawn for Montenegro

“Whose side is Facebook on in this war?” Lithuanian activists ask

Critical Assessment of the Lessons Learned from the war in Ukraine Discussions and recommendations

Bulgaria’s election spiral: the anatomy of disappointment

Episode 135: Book talk: Ukraine is not dead yet. A conversation with Megan Buskey

Ukrainian civil society as one of the key players in the Russo-Ukrainian War

Security and enlargement: two sides of the same coin

What are Lithuania’s goals and chances for NATO’s Vilnius Summit?

Where are the “good Russians”? The complexities of gauging Russians’ stance on the war

Kyrgyzstan faces a new era in regional politics

Critical Assessment of the Lessons Learned from the war in Ukraine Discussions and recommendations

“Russia has already taken ‘Ukrainium’ and it’s fatal”

Neo-imperial Russia: a self-hating western country

Episode 134: Estonia continues to punch above its weight

What changed in Ukraine in 2022?

Czech-Taiwanese relations on the rise

Czech-Taiwanese relations on the rise

The South Caucasus risks becoming the collateral damage of the Russo-Iranian alliance

When the bomb turns into a metaphor

The Finnish effect of the war in Ukraine

The fetish of Russia’s stability: an intelligent weapon against the West

The Alphabet of Pain: How I learned to read again

Russia's invasion of Ukraine - One year later. What' we've learnt and what is next

Overcoming Ukraine’s healthcare crisis: the activities of “UK-Med”

Episode 133: The blockade of the Lachin Corridor