The 80th anniversary parade in Moscow was not only a depressing abuse of history, but also a way to show that Russia is far ...

The evidence from Russia, Azerbaijan and other authoritarian states suggests that peace is far less likely where democracy ...

Nicușor Dan’s victory in Romania proved that the popular desire for independent figures does not have to mean far-right ...

My Women is a poignant, inescapable short story collection about women confronted by the horrific brutalities of the ...

Trump created a window of opportunity for Putin to exit the war with some face, but he did not take advantage of this chance.

The complex system of governance in Bosnia and Herzegovina has brought stability in the aftermath of war. It is now in need ...

The USSR collapsed in 1991. The political entity once referred to by President Reagan as the “Evil Empire” ceased to exist, but its successor state – the Russian Federation – survived, reconstituting ...

For more than 100 days, thousands of Bulgarians have been coming together in the streets to demand the resignations of Boyko Borissov’s third government and General Prosecutor Ivan Geshev. The mass ...

Despite periodic ceasefire declarations, the Kremlin’s military strategy in 2025 shows no intention of negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine. On the contrary, rapid troop mobilization, ramped-up ...

Before the invasion of Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan and other countries used the concepts of “cooperation between brother nations” or “aid to the nation with a common history” as core parts of their foreign ...

Bulgaria, since both its ancient and modern beginnings, has been invariably a multiethnic, mainly Slavic and Turkic, polity. School textbooks in Bulgaria lavish much attention on the ancient Bulgars, ...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 Russia became a democratic state for just a few short years. The Chechen War in 1994 was the first sign of a slow return to imperial policies. The ...