Issue 3 2020

War in Donbas. Its costs, challenges and the commitment to peace

Table of Contents

War in Donbas

How to respond to Putin’s undeclared war
Rebecca Harms

Does Zelenskyy have a strategy for managing the Donbas conflict?
Hanna Shelest

The challenge of reintegration
Tim Bohse and Igor Mitchnik

A tale of two collapses
Wojciech Siegień

Evolution of an identity
Volodymyr Rafeenko

Donbas veterans establish their place in Ukrainian society
An interview with Anton Kolumbet

Opinion & Analysis

Youtubers, influencers and creative activists are the new vanguard in Central Asia
Barbara von Ow-Freytag

 Who is behind the plot to topple the Latvian parliament?
Ričards Umbraško

Kaliningrad’s first million
Miłosz J. Zieliński

The broken promises of Ukraine’s police reform
Chris G. Collison

The price of power
Pavel Usov

Moldova (re)balancing its foreign policy
Denis Cenusa

Grim reality after a colourful revolution
Aleksandra Zdeb

A crisis in Georgia’s politics
Mateusz Kubiak

Interpreting the end of the Second World War

Poland becomes a convenient target in Putin’s memory crusade
An interview with Ernest Wyciszkiewicz

Evolution of memory policy in Germany
Christoph Meissner

Interviews

20 years of NATO’s flagship Multinational Corps Northeast
An interview with Lieutenant General Sławomir Wojciechowski from NATO’s Multinational Corps Northeast

Special Section: 20 years of the Kirkland Scholarship Program

Lane Kirkland Scholarship Program Celebrates its 20th anniversary

The transformation as a learning process
A conversation with Andrew Nagorski

Going West despite everything
Volodymyr Kuzyo

Moldova. A captured state that remains captured
Dan Nicu

Georgia. A successful transformation and a challenge to the oligarchs
Dimitri Avaliani

ART, CULTURE AND SOCIETY

The slow shift of the status quo
Anna Fedas

EASTERN CAFÉ

 A peek into the shadows of history and the present
Adam Reichardt

 Jáchymov. A little spa town and the horrors of forced labour in communist Czechoslovakia
Josette Baer

An investigation into Putin’s useful idiot
Taras Kuzio

Stimulating local memory
Kinga Anna Gajda

In search of the wow effect
Nataliya Parshchyk