Armenia must heavily invest in education, media literacy, and public awareness to build a society capable of discerning and resisting manipulative narratives. Armenia’s strategic geopolitical position […]
As the recent ousting of Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad proves, no autocracy is permanent—and that includes the regime of Azeri President Ilham Aliyev. In late November, […]
The first significant Russian strategic defeat as a direct consequence of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine is the loss of its Mediterranean outpost. Vladimir Putin’s obsession […]
Ukraine’s Cyrillic alphabet is not the same as Russia’s. Nor is there anything specifically Russian about Cyrillic. But perceptions matter. Earlier this week I was crossing […]
Assessing Turkmenistan’s economic health is made difficult by a lack of transparency and restricted access for international observers. Turkmenistan, a Central Asian nation rich in natural […]
President Alexander Lukashenko will almost certainly use his country’s accession to the Eurasian multilateral grouping as a pretext to carry on inundating Poland and the Baltics […]
European football’s governing body needs to enforce stricter discipline to restore order on and off the pitch. UEFA has been a frequent fixture in the headlines […]
Catch up quickly with the stories from Central and Eastern Europe that matter, this week led by Volodymyr Zelensky asking why Ukraine’s allies have not provided […]