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

Analyses

Analyses of current affairs

• The UK shows its openness to China

• Azerbaijan – a major purge ahead of the parliamentary election

• Russian intervention in Syria: tactical successes and the spectre of a strategic deadlock

• The political crisis in Georgia

• Germany: stricter asylum laws

• The Balkan migration route following the closure of the Hungarian-Croatian border

• EU lowers its goals for Belarus

• Filat has been arrested – a new stage in the war of the Moldovan political elites

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