Across eastern Europe, US engagement against Russia is having an adverse effect on grassroots protesters – and no easy solution is forthcoming.
There are signs that a new movement is emerging against austerity in Lithuania, but it will have to contend with a new militarised nationalism.
As trade links resume across the lines of demarcation in Ukraine, and pressure mounts to end the sanctions against Russia, a painful truth emerges: it's not hybrid war, it's hybrid peace.
Europe’s radical left is connected personally and politically to the Kremlin.
A year ago, Ukraine’s president promised to break the oligarchs’ stronghold on power. While this is yet to happen, a new generation of deputies is changing the political atmosphere. Русский
These two books on the war in Ukraine open up fresh questions into how we interpret the causes of conflict.
Understanding the economic roots of rebellion in eastern Ukraine suggests that the resolution to the crisis must address restoring economic and political justice.
Across the former Soviet Union, a new type of authoritarianism has become the default — with commerce, parliaments, military, media and civil society used to consolidate elite economic and political power.
Can civic activists fix Ukraine's entrenched cronyism and corruption?
Attempts to call the Putin regime “neoliberal” get one fundamental thing wrong: capitalism doesn’t exist in Russia. Русский
Far from operating in isolation, Central Asia’s elites have been quietly accumulating power with the help of western tax havens.
Two years after the tumultuous events of 2014, Ukraine is falling out of international media — with consequences for Ukraine’s democracy.
