5/2019: The Black Sea region. A geopolitical Trojan horse?

CONTENTS

The Black Sea region. A complex and dynamic space
Tomasz Stępniewski

Security takes centre stage in the Black Sea
Zurab Agladze

Georgia’s long and uncertain road to NATO membership
Giorgi Goguadze

The shift of dominance in the Black Sea
Sophia Petriashvili

A sea of insecurity
Emil Avdaliani

A playground for influence
Leo Sikharulidze

All is not quiet on the eastern front
David Batashvili 

The dimensions of Georgia’s frozen conflicts
Nino Kukhianidze

OPINION & ANALYSIS

The cost of five years of war in Donbas
Janek Lasocki 

The time for big ideas
Svitlana Oslavska

From Piața Universității to #rezist
Ruxandra Cesereanu 

The risks and rewards of investigative journalism in Central Eastern Europe
Lorenzo Berardi 

When the state turns against its own citizens, resistance becomes duty?
Aleksandra Zdeb

Biological weapons resurface in disinformation campaigns
Nurlan Aliyev 

Promises and challenges. Internationalisation of the transition economies
Kiril Kossev

INTERVIEWS 

With one foot in the Soviet past and the other in Europe
A conversation with Zhanna Maksymenko-Dovhych 

Striving for the good of all, but not himself
A conversation with Tetiana Mykhailova

STORIES AND IDEAS

There will be no singing revolution in Russia
Wojciech Siegień

ART, CULTURE AND SOCIETY

Covering up cross-border co-operation between Lithuania and Kaliningrad
Gil Skorwid

Inside Kyiv’s co-living community
Dominic Culverwell

Prides of the former socialist bloc
Katarina Novikova and Wiktor Trybus

HISTORY AND MEMORY

Forgotten tales of Germany and Ukraine’s past
Adam Balcer

EASTERN CAFÉ  

Attempting to escape the unescapable
Kinga Anna Gajda

Corrupt yes, Russian spy unlikely
Taras Kuzio

Much needed context to the mystery of Kazakhstan
Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska

Forgotten revolutionaries
Kamil Jarończyk