Section: Transitions Online (EU)
Minsk Plans Another Round of Ukraine Talks, Slovaks to Vote on Gay Marriage
Plus, Serbia’s military chief faces new Kosovo allegations, and Mongolia gets a taste of SMS democracy. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
West Mulls Response to Escalation in Ukraine, Azerbaijan Extends Reporter’s Detention
Plus, warnings of a ‘new authoritarianism’ in the Balkans and mounting repression in Kazakhstan. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Notes on a Conspiracy
Ratings agencies, the UN, Hollywood, the Saudis – are they all against Russia? …read more Source: Transitions Online...
U.S. Gives Military Hardware to Uzbekistan, New Outbreak of Violence in Pristina
Plus, the murder trial of a fugitive Kazakhstani tycoon is postponed, and Belarus rediscovers its own language. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Litvinenko Death Probe Opens, Kremlin Blasts S&P’s ‘Junk’ Rating
Plus, aid agencies criticize travel restrictions on Ukraine’s separatist zones, and uranium-rich Kazakhstan mulls the benefits of nuclear power. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Putin and the Thin Line Between Love and Hate
Many who take Russia’s temperature for a living predict the current ardor for its president won’t survive a prolonged crisis. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Mariupol Deaths Prompt Calls for New Sanctions, NATO to Beef Up Presence on Eastern Flank
Plus, tech companies cash out of Crimea, and a Jewish group condemns an honor given by Romania’s new president …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Crimea’s Vanishing Religious Communities
Re-registration requirements and other red tape are driving out priests, nuns, even visiting imams. From Forum 18. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Poroshenko Insists on ‘Unitary’ Ukraine, Top Schools in Tajikistan Under Threat
Plus, Poland’s president rejects his foreign minister’s Auschwitz remark and the Paris attacks cloud Romania and Bulgaria’s Schengen hopes. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
New Cracks in EU Front on Russia, Think Tank Warns of IS Push in Central Asia
Plus, tough talk from Moscow on gas for Europe, and prosecutors want Seselj back in The Hague. …read more Source: Transitions Online...