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The politics of reforming Ukraine’s wartime lifeline

Ukraine has a unitary railway system. The state-owned company, Ukrzaliznytsia, has a monopoly on the railways and operates passenger and freight services. This means competition is virtually non-existent. Such a model is not accepted in the European Union.

April 21, 2026 - Jakub Łoginow

Ballots under fire. Elections during war?

Consensus in Ukraine is that in order to hold elections, a ceasefire would first be necessary. Yet even if a genuine ceasefire were secured, urgent questions would follow. Ukraine thus faces a dilemma few modern democracies have encountered on such a scale: how to safeguard the integrity of elections while fighting for the state’s very survival.

April 21, 2026 - Mariia Didkovska

Populism and motherhood

Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s regime in Belarus has declared 2026 the “Year of the Belarusian Woman”. Under this banner, it has launched a large-scale media campaign promoting families and celebrating mothers. Not new to Belarus, the instrumentalization of family policy reflects a broader global pattern in which populist regimes appeal to traditional values and mobilize anti-gender narratives.

April 21, 2026 - Tatsiana Astrouskaya

How Georgia is being led away from NATO

In Georgia, the ruling elite increasingly presents neutrality as the country’s only viable path. Yet this narrative obscures the extent to which that same elite actively erodes trust in NATO and weakens Georgia’s engagement with the Alliance.

April 21, 2026 - Beka Chedia

How Central Asia quietly expands its horizons westward

Azerbaijan’s entry into the Central Asian Consultative Meeting could transform the grouping into a more coherent and self-reliant framework in which energy, security, cultural ties, and diplomatic coordination mutually reinforce regional autonomy. Energy aggregation would be central to this shift.

April 21, 2026 - Ioseb Dzamukashvili Sekhniashvili

The imperial mindest knows no borders

A conversation with Vitaliy Dribnytsia, a Ukrainian historian. Interviewer: Nikodem Szczygłowski

April 21, 2026 - Nikodem Szczygłowski Vitalii Dribnytsia

I predicted a stalemate and that’s what we got

An interview with Mark Kimmitt, retired Brigadier General of the US Army. Interviewer: Robert Finch

April 21, 2026 - Mark Kimmitt Robert Finch

The last resident of Kharkov

In a sealed border zone between Armenia and Turkey, one woman refuses to leave the last home in a vanished village – preserving a fragile link to a homeland her family lost to genocide.

April 20, 2026 - Martina Sanna

Ukrainian children’s future left to Italian courts

Italy has taken in several hundred Ukrainian children from care homes since 2022. As these minors are now under Italian jurisdiction and the security situation in Ukraine has not improved, an urgent priority for the Ukrainian authorities is to re-establish partial oversight of their living conditions, with a view to their eventual return home.

April 20, 2026 - Nataliya Kudryk

Dividing the forest

In spring 2022, the Białowieża Forest, on the Polish border with Belarus, became the site of one of the most controversial infrastructure projects in the region: the construction of a permanent steel barrier along the Polish–Belarusian border. While construction crews worked on the fence, local researchers conducted daily field visits to document its immediate ecological footprint.

April 20, 2026 - Nasta Zakharevich Nikola Budzińska

Armenia’s diaspora comes home amid challenges and opportunities

Young Armenians from the diaspora are taking a chance on returning to settle in the land of their ancestors. While the economy’s dynamism is appealing, certain integration challenges still make it difficult for them to find their place in society.

April 20, 2026 - Hugo Laulan

Nostalgia is a drug

A review of Once Upon a Russia: Voices from a vanished era. Edited by: Steven A. Fisher. Publisher: Forest Cat Press.

April 20, 2026 - James C. Pearce

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