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 ...

The contribution of Ukraine’s Roma community to defence asks questions as to the country’s post-war future. A truly inclusive ...

Despite common characterizations of Eastern Europe as a region still in need of catching up with its western counterparts, in many areas the opposite is true. Central and Eastern European states, as ...

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 ...

On April 12th, Hungary held what many analysts had described as one of the most consequential elections in Europe in recent years. Pre-election polling suggested that Viktor Orbán’s 16-year hold on ...

CLARA SANDGREN: In April 2026, your organization, Memorial, was labelled an extremist organization. How has this impacted your work? ALEXANDRA POLIVANOVA: The events surrounding Memorial that took ...

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 ...

A credible shift in Europe’s Moscow policy would likely require the end of Putin’s rule or a fundamental change in the Kremlin’s strategic outlook. Attempts at a de-escalation have so far only ...

Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Council of Europe faced an immediate question: what to do with the democratic, civil society, and human rights infrastructure it had spent ...