Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe
There was a time when Ukrainians would have shrugged their shoulders at a new corruption scandal. But Russia’s full-scale invasion has changed that.
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January 17, 2023
Western Oil Cap Helps Slash Russian Oil Revenues by $150bn
There were widely voiced doubts as to whether the West’s oil price cap would work. The naysayers have been proved badly wrong.
January 17, 2023
Learn to Love Death, Russians Urged
While Kremlin propaganda calls on Russians to sacrifice their lives for their country – or at least for a new car or mobile phone – not everyone buys into the state’s celebration of death.
January 17, 2023
Posturing or Mobilization? Belarus in 2023
Russian-Belarusian exercises near the Ukrainian border are causing renewed speculation that a new northern offensive toward Kyiv is being prepared. The region’s terrain, however, would make this difficult.
January 17, 2023
Chinese Media Influence: Lessons Learned from Central and Eastern Europe
How do China’s influence operations vary across Central and Eastern Europe?
January 15, 2023
NATO General Within Reach of Czech Presidency
Not since Václav Havel waved goodbye to his people from a Prague Castle balcony in flurries of snow in 2003, has a moderate, unequivocally pro-Western figure been Czech head of state.
January 13, 2023
Romania Is Hiding its Light
Romania has some of Europe’s largest hydrocarbon reserves and a strategic position that could enhance the security of south-eastern Europe. Instead, it remains inward-looking.
January 13, 2023
Kremlin Crosshairs Focus on Exiles
In the first days of 2023, Moscow has set its sights on the Russians in exile.
January 13, 2023
UKRAINE = RUSSIA? NYET
Vladimir Putin claims that the historic convergence of values among the various peoples of Russia has produced a “Russian world” in which they all cooperate. He’s wrong.
January 12, 2023
Poland’s Flawed Star Can Shine
This year, Poland enters a busy electoral schedule that will resolve its future direction, and affect the wider European project.