For centuries, the Seto have inhabited the region of south-east Estonia and north-west Russia. However, forces outside of ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

Despite common characterizations of Eastern Europe as a region still in need of catching up with its western counterparts, in many areas the opposite is true. Central and Eastern European states, as ...

For more than three decades, a narrow strip of land along the Dniester river, wedged between Moldova and Ukraine, has existed as one of the world’s strangest political entities. With a population of ...

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

In Sofia today, you can board a tram or trolleybus and pay simply by tapping your bank card. Bulgaria uses the euro, belongs fully to Schengen, and has gained unprecedented cultural visibility in ...

“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 ...

Poland’s Deputy Minister of Defence Cezary Tomczyk stated recently that Ukraine had refused to transfer technologies for military drones production to Poland, for which there was supposedly previous ...

CLARA SANDGREN: In April 2026, your organization, Memorial, was labelled an extremist organization. How has this impacted your work? ALEXANDRA POLIVANOVA: The events surrounding Memorial that took ...