The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia has extensive roots in the country’s dissident scene in the 1970s and 1980s. The arrest of the rock band “The Plastic People of the Universe” in 1976 set in ...

NATO’s European allies are adapting their defences at a time when it is becoming increasingly crucial to pursue strategic ...

Networks connected to the Russian Orthodox Church play a key role in Moscow’s influence operations across the world. Regular attempts to promote a pro-Russian worldview are supported by active efforts ...

Many countries in the region still lack a dedicated approach to AI. Far-right parties are now taking advantage of this lack ...

Russia wants to harm our countries without having to use military force, because if it were to use military force, obviously NATO would respond. If it doesn’t use military force, NATO isn’t in charge ...

Western elites have long hoped for a return to the status quo with Russia, but global power shifts and internal Russian structural pressures make this impossible. The load-bearing walls of the Russian ...

Before Russia’s full-scale invasion, Oleshky was home to nearly 24,000 people. Russian forces seized the town in the opening days of the war, and much of it was flooded after the Kakhovka dam was ...

With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the enlargement of the European Union, the East-West divide in Europe appeared to lose much of its significance. Although the Eastern Bloc was highly diverse in ...

When Moldova’s president, Maia Sandu, said that she would personally vote for reunification with Romania in a referendum, she made the case through vulnerability rather than historical grievance. A ...

Oksana emerged from a row of metal barracks, her face weary as she glanced around nervously. Only days earlier, she had left her native Kherson region carrying little more than a few bags. The reason ...

“Putin is a war criminal,” reads a banner displayed by the Narva Museum on the walls of the 14th-century Hermann Castle in Narva, an Estonian city which is barely 100 metres from Russian territory ...

From September 10 to 11, 2026, the National History Museum of Latvia will host the annual largest security and foreign policy forum in the Nordic region “The Rīga Conference 2026”. This year, the ...