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

Analyses

Analyses of current affairs

• Romania’s Anticorruption DNA

• Russia’s game in Syria

• The Volkswagen scandal: a problem with standards in German business?

• The economic consequences of the migration crisis for Germany

• How the refugee issue is affecting the Baltic states

• Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, ‘no’ to allocating refugee quotas

• Transit states helpless in the face of mass migration

• Turkey: the escalating Kurdish conflict stimulates a domestic crisis

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