As the United States marks 250 years of independence, Kyiv and European capitals are watching the celebration with a mix of admiration and alarm. What they see in America's jubilee says as much about ...

Ukraine is no longer just a recipient of NATO support, it is increasingly reshaping the Alliance itself. From ...

“Wars are won by societies.” Few phrases are repeated more often in Kyiv today. Yet outside Ukraine, the meaning behind those words remains poorly understood. In the fifth year of Russia’s full-scale ...

As we are well into the fifth year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, old questions are beginning to stir from beneath the surface, particularly: how should the West engage with Russia, if at ...

I learned to read Romanian from my grandfather, Pavel. He was Ukrainian, yet he read and wrote Romanian with a patience that I have never encountered in anyone else. My mother had found an old ...

On April 12th, Hungarian voters chose to put an end to Fidesz’s 16-year rule. Viktor Orbán suffered a crushing two-thirds electoral defeat, ending one of Europe’s longest and seemingly most entrenched ...

Since its establishment in October 2025, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s (PACE) Platform for Dialogue with Russian democratic forces in exile has now completed both its winter ...

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 ...

When the Russian government decided to block Telegram in February 2026 amid strengthening censorship and all-out mobile internet shutdowns, activists in cities throughout Russia decided to ask ...

In November 2025, the Georgian government announced that Georgians living outside the country would soon no longer be able to vote in Georgian elections from polling stations abroad. To exercise their ...

“Any efforts aimed at changing a society must, above all, be based on the belief that every person is capable of change. And that this change can be influenced in some way – slowly, carefully, with ...