At the end of 2012 the Estonian Center of Eastern Partnership published a report concerning the state of public administration in the countries that take part in the programme. This is the second edition of the summary, after a similar report was published in December 2011. The authors, Vugar Bayramov, Kakha Gogolashvili, Angela Secrieru, Alexei […]
On Friday, August 10th 2012, the parliamentary journal Voice of Ukraine published an announcement stating that Russian is now the second official language in Ukraine. The act concerning the status of Russian language arouses a lot of controversy and has been causing protest in the western part of the country. Although the act does not […]
The Polish Presidency of European Council is slowly coming to an end. One of the priorities of the presidency was the Eastern Partnership and the advancement of cooperation with Poland’s Eastern neighbours of the European Union. However all eyes have been focused on the events of the Arab Spring and the crisis in the Eurozone, […]
Throughout 2011, the attention of the international community has been captivated by news of the Arab revolutions against the authoritarian powers in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen and the other countries which followed suit. The Arab nations woke up to the oppression of dictatorship and took the power into their own hands. People went out onto the […]
November 6, Sunday, 18.00, Massolit Books, ul. Felicjanek 4, Kraków New Eastern Europe, Nowa Europa Wschodnia and Massolit Books invite you to discussion with Shana Penn on “Democracy’s secret: comparing the role of women in Solidarity with women of the Arab Spring”. Shana Penn is the author of Solidarity’s Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism […]
Only a year ago we witnessed the second Nagorno-Karabakh war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. It took at least 5,000 lives and significantly shifted the geopolitics in the South Caucuses.
This special issue aims to honour the plight of Belarusians whose democratic choice made in August 2020 was shamelessly snubbed by Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
The Black Sea region is quickly becoming a geopolitical battleground which is gaining the interest of major powers, regional players and smaller countries – and the stakes are only getting higher.
This issue is dedicated to the 10 year anniversary of the European Union’s Eastern Partnership as well as the 30 years since the 1989 revolutions in Central Europe.
In the eastern parts of the European continent, 1918 is remembered not only as the end of the First World War, but also saw the emergence of newly-independent states and the rise of geopolitical struggles which are felt until this day.
It often seems, at least from the outside, that Belarus remains isolated from the West and very static in its transformation. Yet, despite its relative isolation, Belarus is indeed changing.
Vladimir Putin is set to win a fourth term as president of the Russian Federation. The March-April 2018 issue takes a deeper look at the consequences of Putin’s presidency and what could eventually come after…
We cannot deny there is something idiosyncratic about the former Soviet bloc which links its societies together. Either through common experience or history (or both).
“The price of Europeanising the Balkans is much higher than the price of the Balkanisation of Europe,” claims Zagreb-based writer Miljenko Jergović in the opening essay to this issue of New Eastern Europe.