A painful blow to Ukraine’s heating system. Day 1358 of the war

Analyses

Analyses of current affairs

• Ukrainian politics at the end of 2015: an unstable equilibrium

• Is Germany sceptical about deeper integration within the eurozone?

• Pre-election anti-terrorist campaign in Slovakia

• The European Union opens the first chapters in negotiations with Serbia

• Turkmenistan begins the construction of a gas pipeline to Pakistan and India

• A lifeline for Ukraine from the IMF

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

• Iraq – a new front for Turkey?

Commentaries

In-depth analyses of current affairs

The NB8 group and other formats of security cooperation in the Baltic Sea region

Students vs the system – protest strategies in Serbia

Finding our bearings: tracking circumvention of EU dual-use sanctions on Russia

Germany: a significant drop in the number of asylum applications

A campaign without elections. Ukraine’s political landscape in the fourth year of the war

Russia’s budget under pressure from low oil prices