Eastern Europe

How populism is undermining Ukraine: Trump’s strategy and Zelensky’s challenge

Eastern Europe Iuliia Mendel, TA Kyiv - March 4, 2025.

The war in Ukraine has been reduced to a dangerously oversimplified narrative, framed in the familiar terms of black-and-white absolutes. Our discourse is now saturated...

How Ukrainian Refugees Can Shape Ukrainian Political and Social Landscape?

Eastern Europe Iuliia Mendel, TA Kyiv - February 25, 2025.

The new Ukrainian diaspora—refugees of Russia’s full-scale invasion—has the potential to reshape the political and social landscape back home. Since February 2022, around 8 million...

Do the Baltic states have reason to fear NATO's withdrawal?

Eastern Europe Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - February 21, 2025.

The unpredictability of US President Donald Trump's foreign policy has led to assessments that reports of an alleged Russian demand for NATO to withdraw from...

A Nation in Lockdown: The Costs of Ukraine’s Border Restrictions

Eastern Europe Iuliia Mendel, TA Kyiv - February 18, 2025.

For almost three years, Ukraine has been the only nation among modern democracies to enforce a general travel ban on men of military age. Neither...

Trump’s pragmatic approach to the Russian-Ukrainian war

Eastern Europe Iuliia Mendel, TA Kyiv - February 11, 2025.

Donald Trump is pushing for a ceasefire in Ukraine, setting a deadline for Russian Easter, 20 April. Vladimir Putin has agreed to April—but he meant...

The Rise of Nationalism in a Country Fighting for Its Life

Eastern Europe Iuliia Mendel, TA Kyiv - February 4, 2025.

By February 2022, nationalism in Ukraine had undergone a profound transformation. Faced with the existential threat from Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukrainians rallied around symbols once...

How Ukraine reinforced the issue of NATO membership?

Eastern Europe Iuliia Mendel, TA Kyiv - January 28, 2025.

I was in the room when President Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly raised Ukraine’s NATO accession in January 2021. It was during his Axios interview when, with...

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