One year after the Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the so-called special military operation in Ukraine, the Eastern European nation is firmly backed by the entirety of Western civilization,...
Rainbow Murray, Queen Mary University of London Leading two small countries on opposite sides of the planet, Nicola Sturgeon and Jacinda Ardern have both won widespread respect and admiration for...
Kazakhstan, the largest country in Central Asia, seeks to position itself as an important regional and global actor that has good relations with all major powers. Even though Astana is Russia’s...
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...
