Talk of Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘ties to Russia’ reveals how the media present us with false choices. There must be a space for criticising both austerity politics and Russian state aggression – and for international solidarity.
In the Soviet Union, anyone without an official job could be charged with ‘parasitism’ and sentenced to internal exile. Now Belarus has revived the idea. 
How to play hardball: Ukraine's parliament has revoked the agreement between Russia and Ukraine on the movement of Russian troops through Ukrainian territory to Transnistria.
Russia was everywhere and nowhere at the recent Eastern Partnership summit in Riga.
After two decades of russification, the Belarusian government is rethinking its identity politics.
A recent statement by a prominent Russian opposition figure is testament to an unpalatable truth: Crimea’s annexation is popular with Russia’s ‘liberal elite.’
The sanctions knife cuts both ways – rallying around the flag, and regime change.
If the EU is serious about helping Ukraine, both parties should focus on the country’s most glaring problem, and the Maidan’s principal demands – justice and the rule of law.
The EU may like to think of Moldova as its ‘star pupil’, but its unconditional support for successive corrupt governments may have lost it the support of the country’s people.
The language of international law has become another battleground between Russia and the West.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili's decision on 4 November 2014 to dismiss Defence Minister Irakli Alasania provoked an immediate reaction both in and outside the country.
It is now a criminal offence for Russian citizens not to declare their foreign passports or permanent residence permits. 
In 2014, the Russian government launched the ‘Global Education’ programme of postgraduate education abroad. But the reaction in Russia has been obstructive and hostile. 
Украина находится на пороге банкротства. Выполнить бюджет на 2015 год практически нереально. Радикальные реформы затягиваются. Война на востоке страны продолжается. Что ожидает Украину в 2015 году? 
Ukraine is almost bankrupt. The budget for 2015 is unrealistic. Root and branch reform has stalled. There is a war still going in the east of the country. Where now? 
Kakha Bendukidze died in November 2014 at the age of 58. Bendukidze directed the whirlwind of economic reform that characterised Georgia from 2004 to 2008-9.
Security think-tanks and expert communities in the Western world are perpetuating the dangerous myth that Muslim radicalisation is rife in Central Asia.
Central Asian security services have been abducting their countries’ citizens from Russia to stand trial on trumped-up charges. And the Russian police have been helping them.
Russia’s voluntary sector, faced with growing government interference, needs to be more open about its aims and operations if it wants more public support.
Most talk about censorship on Russian television misses the point. When it comes to reporting, loyalty takes precedence.
Is the European far right really acting as Russia's Trojan Horse in the European Union?
Belarus is slowly opening up to the idea of gender equality. But the conservative meaning attached to the concept is holding it back.
Russians pride themselves on their capacity for state-building, but their idea of the state is not one that the West would recognise, or was hoping for…
Academic concepts about EU foreign policy and the European Neighbourhood Policy are not always enough to explain what is going on in the region.
The current crisis unfolding in Ukraine has brought the issue of nuclear weapons back into sharp focus.
Looking at both the historical and current pro-Putin segment of German public discussion, one can identify the target groups and methods of Russian disinformation politics
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