Section: Transitions Online (EU)
Russia Votes No on Calling Srebrenica Genocide, Billboards Mock Hungary’s Anti-Migrant Drive
Plus, Georgia bills Russia for 2006-2007 expulsions, and a libel case furthers Kazakhstan’s media crackdown. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Kremlin Opposes MH17 Tribunal, EU Membership Hopes Grow in Balkans
Plus, Russian police raid an election monitor’s offices, and Czech prisons are full again after amnesty. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
No Jury Trial for Savchenko, Police Break Up Yerevan Protest
Plus, Lithuania and the U.S. announce joint military training, and Kosovo’s Bosniaks call for more mother-tongue university education. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Everybody Loves Volodya
With Putin’s approval ratings sky-high, have even his critics changed their minds – or have they just found the door? …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Armenia to Buy Russian Missiles, Serbian Premier Pegs Srebrenica Visit to Results of UN Vote
Plus, Russia denounces Poland’s ‘war of monuments,’ and Ukraine’s first professionalized traffic cops graduate. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Moscow Blasts Draft MH17 Report, UN Asks Hungary to Rethink Tighter Asylum Proposals
Plus, a self-described IS militant uses social media to denounce his native Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan fumes over a separatist’s invitation to London. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Russia Says It Can Defy Strasbourg Court, Hungary Woos Legion of Emigrants
Plus, Georgia’s economic slowdown worsens, and Macedonia’s Zaev dares authorities to come and get him. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Powers and Plots
A steady supply of conspiracy theories helps Eastern Europeans (and many others) to cope – by not coping. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Siemens Reportedly Skirts Sanctions on Crimea, Kremlin Slates UN Srebrenica Resolution
Plus, EU to help ‘frontline’ Hungary with migrant influx, and energy challenges lie ahead for Kazakhstan. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Is This the End of the Caucasus Emirate?
As several North Caucasus commanders transfer their allegiance to the Islamic State, an IS spokesman announces the creation of a ‘Caucasus Province.’ From openDemocracy. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
