A year ago, thousands of people took to the streets of every major Ukrainian city to protest against moves to restrict the independence and capacity of the country’s anti-corruption institutions. The ...

The development of effective European self-defence against Russia's "mental warfare" demands better understanding of how ...

Alaksandar Klacko recalls the first days of Russia’s full-scale invasion without any romanticism. For him, the war began the moment he realized that missiles striking Ukrainian cities were being ...

For centuries, the Seto have inhabited the region of south-east Estonia and north-west Russia. However, forces outside of ...

The recent electoral victory of Prime Minister Rumen Radev is leading to a new defence outlook in Bulgaria. While worries ...

After reporting from the frontlines stretching from southern Donetsk Oblast through Sloviansk to the Kharkiv region – where we met several Ukrainian brigades and spoke with dozens of soldiers – we ...

For more than three decades, a narrow strip of land along the Dniester river, wedged between Moldova and Ukraine, has existed as one of the world’s strangest political entities. With a population of ...

In Sofia today, you can board a tram or trolleybus and pay simply by tapping your bank card. Bulgaria uses the euro, belongs fully to Schengen, and has gained unprecedented cultural visibility in ...

In the summer of 2025, Everly Life, an American life insurance company, published its “Best Places to Retire” report — a global ranking that upended conventional wisdom. Estonia — a country of 1.3 ...

Europe’s Russia policy has strong potential but lacks the domestic political conditions to effectively implement it. Sanctions architecture, defence commitments, and support for Ukrainian sovereignty ...

In this age of Russia’s full-scale military onslaught on Ukraine and parallel hybrid assaults on the rest of Europe, propaganda is like yet another missile, drone or ballistic rocket. It does not raze ...