The Russians are building their own Starlink system. Day 1490 of the war

Analyses

Analyses of current affairs

• The constitutional referendum in Armenia: the institutionalisation of the oligarchy

• Iraq – a new front for Turkey?

• Russia’s crisis budget for 2016

• The political crisis in Kosovo – the growing resistance to a deal with Serbia

• The summit of the European Council and the prime minister of Turkey on the migration crisis

• Azerbaijan’s government strikes at the Shiite opposition

• Protest by truck drivers in Russia

• Russian-Turkish confrontation over Syria

Commentaries

In-depth analyses of current affairs

The three special cases: demographic processes in the South Caucasus

Help from the Far East: Japan’s support for Ukraine

On the eve of a parliamentary election in Moldova: a European future in the shadow of uncertain results

Putin’s elite divides the spoils in Russia: large-scale nationalisation and re-privatisation of assets

A nationalist voice of protest: the resurgence of radical parties in Bulgaria

Long live youth! Demography of Central Asian states