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The Gradiška border crossing and Bosnia’s politics of double standards

The opening of a new border crossing in Gradiška should have been an unpolitical moment, meant to symbolise connection. Instead, an infrastructure project has once again turned into a Bosnian political power struggle.

June 9, 2026 - Erdin Kadunić

“Ukrainian citizens are not a burden, but a benefit to Poland”

An interview with Maciej Duszczyk, an employee and adviser on migration to the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland, and a professor at the University of Warsaw. Interviewer: Andrii Kutsyk.

May 14, 2026 - Andrii Kutsyk Maciej Duszczyk

Building trust across borders: Rethinking Ukrainian–Romanian relations in a changing Europe

An interview with Armand Goșu, a Romanian analyst, historian, and former advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania. Interviewer: Liliia Shutiak.

May 7, 2026 - Armand Goșu Liliia Shutiak

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

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

Poland’s borderland on fire

Russian hybrid attacks are meant to increasingly disrupt our everyday reality. When positioned together, these incidents form a troubling pattern: disinformation campaigns, foreign intelligence groups, acts of sabotage, explosives discovered in cemeteries or mailed in envelopes – all contributing to a general state of anxiety and heightened alert. Strengthening preparedness to meet security challenges is one of the most reliable ways to mitigate such concerns.

December 8, 2025 - Jan Farfał

Not just pushbacks: the controversial deforestation at the Lithuanian-Belarusian border

Illegal migration remains a key problem along the traditionally quiet border between Lithuania and Belarus. While Vilnius continues to push back migrants, it has also felled many ancient trees along the frontier. A delicate balance of rights concerns has subsequently emerged in the area.

August 5, 2025 - Giulia Pilia

Poland is defending Europe from Russia’s hybrid war

EU cooperation with Warsaw must strengthen as Russia’s systemic threat becomes clear.

April 4, 2025 - Hugo Blewett-Mundy

It is time to take the improvement of the Ukraine-EU border seriously

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, the country’s border with the EU, particularly that with Poland, has been in the limelight for reasons both good and bad. While in recent months it mainly attracted attention due to the Polish farmers and freight carriers’ blockade, the overall problems related to the Ukraine-EU border are far more complex and require a more comprehensive set of solutions.

When Polish President Andrzej Duda travelled to Kyiv at the height of Ukraine-Poland relations in May 2022, he talked mostly about Russia’s aggression and the need to enhance cooperation. But he also touched upon another, no less important matter. Namely, that Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine which caused a massive exodus of people during a short period exposed the Ukraine-Poland border’s subpar condition, adding that the border must “unite, not divide”. This statement was warmly greeted in Ukraine, as by then the border had turned into the country’s lifeline, with dozens of hubs created in bordering Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary to quickly process all sorts of critical supplies.

April 11, 2024 - Lesia Dubenko

Why did she go back?

The story of Nadezhda Rossinskaya exposes the sheer variety of experiences surrounding the war in Ukraine. Having set out to help Ukrainians fleeing to Russia from her home in Belgorod, she was eventually arrested by the Russian authorities suspicious of her actions.

March 13, 2024 - Thomas Rowley

A tale from under the shelling. Living through war in a Ukrainian community at the Russian border

The inhabitants of Krasnopillia have been living under continuous Russian artillery fire from across the border, just 15 km away, since April 2022.

November 15, 2022 - Kateryna Pryshchepa

The Belarusian migrant crisis and state propaganda

The height of the migrant crisis on the Belarus-Poland border made headlines around the world last year in what was to become a prelude to Lukashenka dragging Belarus into Putin's invasion of Ukraine

March 14, 2022 - Hanna Vasilevich

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