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I grew up hearing Ukraine’s village songs. Now we are helping young people bring them back.

A grassroots project is working to revive the dialects and folk traditions that have all but disappeared from rural Ukraine.

May 21, 2025 - Yuri Bilinsky

Bulgaria’s Eurozone games

The circumstances surrounding a proposed initiation of a referendum on Bulgaria's entry date to the Eurozone are symptomatic of the country's rule of law decay.

May 20, 2025 - Radosveta Vassileva

Beating the blockade: why western sanctions failed to cripple Russia

Issues persist concerning the effectiveness of the West’s sanctions programme on Russia. While hopes were expressed that this would ultimately bring Moscow to the negotiating table, such ambitions have ultimately failed to influence the Kremlin and its aggressive foreign policy.

May 19, 2025 - Divya Malhotra

Pope Francis and his complicated legacy in Ukraine

Pope Francis is largely remembered throughout the world for his positive legacy. However, things are a bit more complex in Ukraine. While the former leader of the Vatican sent humanitarian aid to the country, his actions regarding Russia often led to disappointment.

May 16, 2025 - Mark Temnycky

Why Russia’s military moves in 2025 show it is not ready to stop

Despite periodic ceasefire declarations, the Kremlin’s military strategy in 2025 shows no intention of negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine. On the contrary, rapid troop mobilization, ramped-up military spending, and increasing missile and drone production indicate that the Kremlin wants to continue its offensive to maximize territorial gains this year. The West must plan its actions accordingly and avoid prematurely assuming that peace is on the horizon.

May 14, 2025 - Maksym Beznosiuk

Russia is stealing Ukrainian grain. It wants to do so without any restrictions

Interview with Kateryna Yaresko, a journalist with the Myrotvorets Center and the head of the Business Journalism and Digital Media Department at the National University of Economics in Kharkiv. Interviewer: Kateryna Pryshchepa.

May 12, 2025 - Kateryna Pryshchepa Kateryna Yaresko

“Russia has lost sensitivity to death. Death validates it now”

Interview with Andrey Makarychev on Putin’s fetish for May 9th, the death cult of Homo Putinus, and how Russia became a retro-state. Interviewer Vazha Tavberidze.

May 9, 2025 - Andrey Makarychev Vazha Tavberidze

In the digital shadows, Belarusian cyber partisans unnerve Lukashenka

While Lukashenka might have managed to restore order within Belarus, resistance to his rule continues both inside and outside the country. This is particularly clear in the online sphere, where groups are now actively challenging the government with real-life consequences.

May 8, 2025 - David Kirichenko 

Issue 3/2025: Negotiating peace?

To anyone who observes the situation in Ukraine and ongoing Russian attacks it is unfortunately crystal clear that the main obstacle to peace is the unwillingness to end the war by the Russian Federation. Read in the latest issue of New Eastern Europe.

May 6, 2025 - New Eastern Europe

Collectively, we are losing this war

An interview with Serhiy Sydorenko, editor of European Pravda. Interviewers: Adam Reichardt and Iwona Reichardt, New Eastern Europe

May 6, 2025 - New Eastern Europe Serhiy Sydorenko

Russia’s war is undermining the world order

Since 2014, Moscow has been transforming global affairs in the interests of international revisionism. This has already caused considerable damage to international law and the global rules-based order. In fact, the political implications of Russia’s attack reach far beyond Ukraine and Eastern Europe.

Going into its 11th year of war against Ukraine, the results of Russia’s attack on its alleged “brother nation” are ambiguous for the Kremlin. On the one hand, its image as a supposed military superpower has suffered greatly. Since 2022 the war has become an international embarrassment for the Russian leadership, army and weapons industry. Moscow’s campaign in Ukraine also led to the loss of western partners, markets and investors.

May 6, 2025 - Andreas Umland

Trump’s new political technology

It’s bad enough that Trump lives, to use Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s words, “in this disinformation space”. Countries like Ukraine have to cope with Trump imposing his virtual reality on the rest of us.

In 2023 I finished my book Political Technology: The Globalisation of Political Manipulation (see: www.politicaltechnology.blog). While the phrase is well known in Russia and throughout the post-Soviet world, which is my area of interest, it is not so much heard in the West. However, when properly defined – and my definition is “the supply-side engineering of the political system for partisan advantage” – plenty of examples can be found in the West. Spin doctors do more than spin the mediatization of politics.

May 6, 2025 - Andrew Wilson

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