Relations between Baku and Budapest have often been low-profile in nature. However, this appears to be changing at a rapid ...

Relations between Poland and Georgia have always been strong but have often been subject to historical oversight. However, ...

Free media in Georgia is currently facing increasing pressure from the ruling Georgian Dream party. In order to ensure ...

The Russian language is the only ‘big language’ in the world to remain so closely connected to its parent nation-state, Russia. Despite the fact that it is used so widely across the post-Soviet sphere ...

As Russia’s missiles strike the historic heart of Odesa once again, reducing UNESCO heritage sites to rubble, the city faces not only the immediate devastation of war but also a more insidious threat: ...

Bulgaria, since both its ancient and modern beginnings, has been invariably a multiethnic, mainly Slavic and Turkic, polity. School textbooks in Bulgaria lavish much attention on the ancient Bulgars, ...

Serbia received full candidate status for membership of the European Union in 2013. Since then, the country has made modest efforts to tackle its deeply-rooted democratic shortcomings. As of 2020, ...

The USSR collapsed in 1991. The political entity once referred to by President Reagan as the “Evil Empire” ceased to exist, but its successor state – the Russian Federation – survived, reconstituting ...

The former President of Georgia has a strained relationship with his homeland. To some a hero, to others a villain – his legacy is much debated, as his time in power was crucial for the country.