Bakhmut, a small city in the Donbass, is the focus of a war of attrition between the Russian Wagner Group mercenaries and the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Judging by the current developments on the...
The West is reportedly pressuring Serbia to implicitly recognize Kosovo – the southeastern European nation’s breakaway province that unilaterally declared independence in 2008. The European...
As the war in Ukraine rages on, both sides seem to be preparing to launch large-scale offensives. While Russia continues building up troops in Belarus, as well as in southern Ukraine, at this point...
Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh – a mountainous region internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, although it has effectively been under Armenian control for three decades – seem to...
The Ukraine war will almost certainly last throughout 2023. The very nature of the conflict suggests that it will end only when Russia completely withdraws its troops from the Eastern European...
Ever since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, dozens of thousands of Russians have found a haven in Serbia – the only European country that has not imposed sanctions...
Amid the Ukraine war, and the upcoming energy crisis, the last thing Brussels seems to care about is the enlargement of the European Union. Yet several Balkan countries, having spent decades in the...
Jo Smith Finley, Newcastle University The latest wave of protests sweeping through China were sparked by the deaths of at least ten people in a fire in a high-rise apartment block in Ürümchi,...
Tensions are growing in northern Kosovo a day after Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti failed to reach a deal on the license plates dispute. The two leaders...
Russia’s military and political debacle in Ukraine seems to have no end. After the Russian Armed Forces withdrew from the Kharkiv region in September, the Kremlin continued its policy of...