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From Panama, via London, with love
The Panama Papers implicate more than just a few select international leaders. They demonstrate how offshore finance and corrupt leaders in the post-Soviet space thrive off each other.This much is...
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Corbyn and Russia: hysteria and hindsight
Talk of Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘ties to Russia’ reveals how the media present us with false choices. There must be a space for criticising both austerity politics and Russian state aggression – and for...
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The destruction of sanctioned food only exposes Russia’s poverty gap
In Russia, while food imports from western countries are being destroyed in massive quantities, many ordinary citizens cannot afford to feed themselves. на русском языке Over the past year, the Russian...
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Солидарность с условиями для Украины
Может ли сотрудничество между гражданским обществом и финансовыми организациями улучшить власть в Украине? in English Существует ли взаимосвязь между сильным гражданским обществом и способностью...
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Russia's senseless investigation into Baltic independence
In another manifestation of the absurd, Russia's latest investigation into the legality of Baltic independence uses the very tactics used by dissident movements against Soviet rule.In 1991, Estonia,...
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After Baku, let's not forget about human rights
With the European Games in Baku over, what does the future hold for Europe's relationship with Azerbaijan? The first edition of the European Games – Europe’s ‘mini’ version of the Olympic Games – are...
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The ‘parasite law’ in Belarus
In the Soviet Union, anyone without an official job could be charged with ‘parasitism’ and sentenced to internal exile. Now Belarus has revived the idea.This year the Belarusian government issued a...
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Transnistria: West Berlin of the post-Soviet world
How to play hardball: Ukraine's parliament has revoked the agreement between Russia and Ukraine on the movement of Russian troops through Ukrainian territory to Transnistria.Fresh intrigue is afoot in...
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The elephant in the room at Riga
Russia was everywhere and nowhere at the recent Eastern Partnership summit in Riga. The Eastern Partnership summit, which took place last week in Riga, confirmed the expectation that the EU would not...
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A new partnership for co-operation in the Black Sea
An economic and strategic partnership between Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey is ramping up, and turning to the West.In December 2014, the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey met in...
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Belarus has an identity crisis
After two decades of russification, the Belarusian government is rethinking its identity politics. In the last days of the Soviet Union, Belarus was the most russified of all its republics, and there...
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Russia's short-termism in the Middle East
Is the Ukraine conflict shifting Russia's Middle Eastern policy from real strategy to scoring cheap points? There have been many new twists in the chain of Middle Eastern upheavals in the last year —...
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How Russia’s opposition learned to stop worrying and love Crimea
A recent statement by a prominent Russian opposition figure is testament to an unpalatable truth: Crimea’s annexation is popular with Russia’s ‘liberal elite.’ Even by Russian standards, Ksenia Sobchak...
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Sanctions and regime survival
The sanctions knife cuts both ways – rallying around the flag, and regime change. Some debates never die; they just get replayed. After the Soviet Army invaded Afghanistan in late December 1979, the...
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Ukraine’s European integration
If the EU is serious about helping Ukraine, both parties should focus on the country’s most glaring problem, and the Maidan’s principal demands – justice and the rule of law.Ukraine has long been at...
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Moldova's ambiguous European integration
The EU may like to think of Moldova as its ‘star pupil’, but its unconditional support for successive corrupt governments may have lost it the support of the country’s people. Viktor Yanukovych’s...
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How well does Russia speak the language of international law?
The language of international law has become another battleground between Russia and the West. As a system of signs and codes dependent on an individual’s fluency, language can be – and is – used as a...
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In Auschwitz, Poland has outmanoeuvred Russia
This year, the Poles were determined not to invite the Russians to Auschwitz. And they succeeded. To date, Russo-Polish diplomatic relations have largely kept to a single format of celebrating various...
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The end of the Georgian dream
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili's decision on 4 November 2014 to dismiss Defence Minister Irakli Alasania provoked an immediate reaction both in and outside the country.Georgian Prime...
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Высокая цена демократии в Украине
Украина находится на пороге банкротства. Выполнить бюджет на 2015 год практически нереально. Радикальные реформы затягиваются. Война на востоке страны продолжается. Что ожидает Украину в 2015 году?9...
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