Eastern Europe

Zelenskyy seeks talks with Trump and the Europeans on slow progress of peace efforts with Russia

Eastern Europe TA | AP Insight - August 30, 2025.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukrainian officials want to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump and European leaders next week to discuss recent developments...

The Case for a Ceasefire in Ukraine

Eastern Europe Richard Haass - August 27, 2025.

“Ripeness is all” opined Edgar in Shakespeare’s King Lear. Everyone would do well to keep this in mind amid diplomatic efforts to end the war...

Church or Kremlin’s tool?

Eastern Europe Iuliia Mendel, TA Kyiv - August 26, 2025.

Ukraine may ban one of its branches of the Orthodox Church if it fails to sever ties with Russia. August 18 marked the final deadline...

Female political prisoners in Belarus face abuse, humiliation and threats of losing parental rights

Eastern Europe TA | AP Insight - August 23, 2025.

Antanina Kanavalava says her four years in a Belarusian penal colony as a political prisoner were filled with a fear and anguish that still haunts...

Why did Donbas become indispensable to Putin?

Eastern Europe Iuliia Mendel, TA Kyiv - August 19, 2025.

A small territory in eastern Ukraine — Donbas — long remained outside the glare of media attention, even within Ukraine itself. Now, it has become...

The EU’s Serbian shame

Eastern Europe Ferry Biedermann - August 14, 2025.

Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić reminds me in many ways of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. Not only for the way he runs a clientelist state around an...

Europe’s longest-serving dictator as peacemaker

Eastern Europe Iuliia Mendel, TA Kyiv - August 12, 2025.

The longest-serving dictator in Europe has now positioned himself as a peacemaker. Alexander Lukashenko has been in power in Belarus for over 31 years —...

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