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Călin Georgescu tops the ballot after the first round of voting amid fears of vote interference.
Donald Trump has vowed to bring peace to Ukraine. But talk of a ‘deal’ has led to questions over Trump’s commitment to Kyiv.
Trump has stressed his personal relationships with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy; Harris is looking to build an international coalition.
A new study found that pliant local media in Ukraine and Georgia was manipulated by Moscow to present anti-Western narratives.
The Kremlin has pushed a dual narrative: that the conflict represents an existential battle with the West, but that life goes on as normal for most Russians.
Georgian Dream is looking to push through a legislative package that will curtail the rights of the country’s LGBTQ+ people.
Georgia’s football team has surpassed expectations as political turmoil rumbles on at home.
The World Bank estimates that it will take $480 billion of investment to get Ukraine back on its feet after the war.
Georgia is backsliding toward Russia’s sphere of influence.
Lithuania doesn’t often set the agenda, yet it has been warning that Russia would invade Ukraine since 2008.
Recent laws and pro-Putin sentiment by Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov have sparked concern that the Central Asian country is backsliding on democracy.
As war drags on, more Ukrainians say that they are prepared to negotiate – but the majority still reject any deal with Russia.
An expert on Ukrainian music and folklore explains how holiday traditions celebrate both centuries of culture and present-day resistance.
The perceived “otherness” of eastern and central Europe is a complex phenomenon, which a new book on the Polish Nobel laureate’s oeuvre brings to light.
Russia seeks evidence in western countries that justifies its anti-Ukraine propaganda, and Canadian Parliament has provided it with much-needed ammunition for a tired and erroneous argument.
Tactics used to censor the teaching of American history in Florida schools bear much in common with those seen in the illiberal democracies of Israel, Turkey, Russia and Poland.
This year, 32 years after Latvia’s independence, the festival boasted over 40,000 participants including almost 3,000 from Latvia’s diaspora.
A scholar of Eastern Europe spent time talking with Ukrainians in Kyiv during a recent trip and observed that people are scarred from the war – but still determined to fight back against Russia.
Russian authorities have given no legitimate justification for dropping criminal cases against rebel troops – undermining both President Vladimir Putin and the legal system.
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