Eurasia

Not long after late 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan became independent, illegal narcotics trafficking started through the region, mainly coming from drug-producing countries in South Asia, particularly Afghanistan, and being smuggled...

The Czech Republic, in a widely predicted result, returned former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and his ANO movement to power in parliamentary elections held in early October of 2025. While the outcome of the polls was clear, several key...

The following conversation was recorded on October 16, 2025, and has been edited for clarity. You can listen to the conversation here.   Natalia Kopytnik: Hello, everyone. Our guest today is Dr. Alina Bargaoanu. She is a Romanian communication...

The following conversation was recorded on September 24, 2025, and has been edited for clarity. You can listen to the full conversation here. Natalia Kopytnik: I would like to welcome our guest today, Eusebiu Slavitescu. Eusebiu is a transatlantic...

The following conversation, as featured on the Baltic Ways podcast, has been edited for clarity.  Ben Gardner Gill: Welcome to Baltic Ways. I’m your host, Ben Gardner Gill. Today, as a new academic year is underway, we thought it was time...

  The Kyiv Independent’s Francis Farrell sits down with Rob Lee, a military expert and senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, to assess the state of Russia’s war in Ukraine three and a half years into the...

One may occasionally hear statements about military defense that sound absurd, like a recent claim that “Lithuania is running out of space for its military.” How and why does this statement make sense, and what does it mean for...

Introduction The Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China announced that their friendship had “no limits” and “no ‘forbidden’ areas of cooperation” in 2022. That summit between President Vladimir Putin and Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping...

Less than two years ago, after the last parliamentary elections, Poland was on the minds of all of Europe and beyond. In the middle of this year, Poles went to the polls again, this time for presidential elections. The...

Sweden’s accession to NATO in 2024 and the successful completion of its first deployment to NATO’s Forward Land Forces (FLF) in Latvia in the first half of 2025 mark a strategic shift in the country’s defence posture. This move,...