From Schengen and the euro to brain drain and the concept of "imam chovek", Bulgaria's recent successes reveal a deeper ...

Ukraine is no longer just a recipient of NATO support, it is increasingly reshaping the Alliance itself. From ...

As the United States marks 250 years of independence, Kyiv and European capitals are watching the celebration with a mix of admiration and alarm. What they see in America's jubilee says as much about ...

“Wars are won by societies.” Few phrases are repeated more often in Kyiv today. Yet outside Ukraine, the meaning behind those words remains poorly understood. In the fifth year of Russia’s full-scale ...

Revolutions are a lot like geometry. Euclidean geometry tells us that the shortest distance between any two points is a straight line. In this sense, revolutions are the shortest route to political ...

Since its establishment in October 2025, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s (PACE) Platform for Dialogue with Russian democratic forces in exile has now completed both its winter ...

In December 2025, the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council member Eva Merkacheva asked Vladimir Putin to perform a “holiday miracle”. Appealing on behalf of people with disabilities and mothers ...

On April 12th, Hungarian voters chose to put an end to Fidesz’s 16-year rule. Viktor Orbán suffered a crushing two-thirds electoral defeat, ending one of Europe’s longest and seemingly most entrenched ...

I learned to read Romanian from my grandfather, Pavel. He was Ukrainian, yet he read and wrote Romanian with a patience that I have never encountered in anyone else. My mother had found an old ...

When the Russian government decided to block Telegram in February 2026 amid strengthening censorship and all-out mobile internet shutdowns, activists in cities throughout Russia decided to ask ...

Europe’s Russia policy has strong potential but lacks the domestic political conditions to effectively implement it. Sanctions architecture, defence commitments, and support for Ukrainian sovereignty ...