From a disastrous pandemic response and blatantly rigged elections, to nationwide protests and brutal crackdowns, this past year has been one of the...
So far it is two cheers for Biden's approach to Russia, argues Matthew Sussex for the Interpreter. Some of the sanctions will be more effective than...
The opposition in Belarus promised a 'hot spring' with new mass protests against Lukashenko. But active repression in the last months precluded that...
In an interview president Biden affirmed that he considered Putin 'a killer'. Russian pundits reacted ferociously, but Putin rather made fun of him,...
On February 22 the trial against Viktor Babariko, ex-candidate for president of Belarus and former top manager of Belgazprombank, will be resumed at...
So far the Belorusian security forces have been the loyal and brutal guarantee for the survival of president Lukashenko. The opposition is trying to...
On November 15 the young reformer Maia Sandu convincingly won the presidential elections in Moldova. By defeating the Moscow-oriented Igor Dodon she...
Russian opposition activist Aleksei Navalny in Berlin is recovering from the murder attempt with nerve agent novichok in Tomsk. He is walking again,...
On March 18, the lives of hundreds of thousands of migrants across Russia were turned upside down. That day, the country closed its borders with the...
Ten days ago Jeroen Ketting, Dutch businessman in Moscow since 26 years, sent his 12 employees home. His staff didn’t see the need. Nobody in Russia...
While the state and state-dependent sector of the Russian economy is growing and the private sector is dying, no liberal reforms are to be expected....
A wave of resignations and strikes is sweeping Russia’s health sector. In October at least 10 doctors quit Russia’s top cancer hospital, the Blokhin...
