Many Ukrainian commentators have focused on Transdniestria as an example of the way in which Moscow uses a frozen conflict to influence a former Soviet republic, but they might learn more from considering the case of Gagauzia, an autonomy...
Some Hungarian politicians dream of reconstructing the country’s pre-WWII borders. This means incorporating the borderline areas of Austria, nearly one half of Slovakia, a large part of the Ukrainian Zakarpattia Oblast (also known...
On March 12, Vladimir Makovich, one of the “founders” of the “DNR” terrorist organization (“Donetsk People’s Republic”), died in occupied Donetsk at 54. Makovych was “the person who read...
The second anniversary of Boris Nemtsov’s murder near the wall of the Kremlin has sparked many memories about the late Russian politician and his ideas, but none may be more insightful about the future of the Russian Federation and...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
