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

Analyses

Analyses of current affairs

• Russian gas for the Donbas: the games being played with Kyiv and Brussels

• Kazakhstan on the edge

• ‘Hybrid’ truce in the Donbas

• Putin in Budapest – overcoming isolation

• Minsk 2 - a fragile truce

• The Luftwaffe and American military equipment in Uzbekistan

• The Slavkov Declaration. A new format of regional cooperation

• Ukraine: chances for a visa-free regime with the EU?

Commentaries

In-depth analyses of current affairs

A fragile future: decarbonisation of Germany’s steel sector

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