Section: Transitions Online (EU)
Moldovan Presidential Candidates Heading for Runoff
Results in the first round of voting give pro-Russian candidate Igor Dodon the upper hand, and 10 percent more votes than pro-West Maia Sandu. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Combating ‘Hybrid Warfare’ in Estonia
A failed communist takeover of Tallinn in 1924 contains valuable lessons for holding out against potential invaders. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Bulgaria to Pay Russia Over 600 Million Euros for Belene
Settlement is the latest turn of events concerning the fate of cancelled nuclear power plant. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Barbed Wire Is the Tie That Binds Belarus and Russia
Anonymous artist makes a pointed addition to a Minsk mural symbolizing the city’s friendship with Moscow. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Belarus to Host Second Edition of European Games
Denmark cries foul as Baku, the games’ first host, passes the torch to Minsk, the only candidate for the 2019 competition. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
NGOs: Reject Russia’s Bid to Join UN Human Rights Body
Russia’s role in Syria should disqualify it from representing Eastern Europe at the world’s foremost human rights body, global NGOs say. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Romania the Leanest, Central Europe and Baltics Among Heaviest In the EU
Eurostat survey shows positive correlation between age and obesity, and a drop in obesity as education levels increase. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Tatars Mark One Year of Blockading Crimea
A few hundred protesters vow not to let up the pressure until the peninsula is back in Ukrainian hands. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
British Bank Closes Russian Broadcaster RT Accounts
UK government denies any role in NatWest’s unexplained move to close the Kremlin’s English-language mouthpiece. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Putin and the West: What Next?
Just when relations between Russia and the West seemed to have reached an all-time low, things have taken a turn for the worse this fall. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
