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EU supports Career Fest in Guria opening new opportunities for local youth

Xi Jinping’s Purge of the PLA: A Reign of Terror

‘He’s a man, after all — he’ll manage’

How the Russian military sends wounded soldiers back to die on the front lines

Will the Western Balkans ever join the EU?  

‘Don’t make me chase you’: Leaked texts reveal how Russian spies recruit, pressure and run their informants

"Eagles of Russia". How Ukrainian children are turning into future soldiers of the Russian army 

The Digital Iron Curtain 2.0: how the MAX messenger is reshaping Russia’s communication space

Putin Says Armenia And Russia Can Achieve A ‘Civilized Divorce’ – Analysis

Threat from Belarus: Russia May Mobilize 100,000 Troops for a Potential Offensive

Russia’s small businesses buckle under taxes, weak demand and wartime disruption

Share of Russian-Flagged Vessels in Shadow Fleet Shipments Nearly Quadruples – KSE Institute Study

Commission releases €158.9 million to Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia under EU Growth Plan for the Western Balkans

What really holds China and Russia together

What If Putin Can’t End the War?

“They broke a shovel and threatened to rape him with a handle” How are Russian prisoners being forced to fight against Ukraine? 

EU Enlargement: Two-Speed ​​Membership

Seabed War: Russia’s Secretive Defence Units and Undersea Sabotage Architecture

Putin admitted the real reason for the war against Ukraine 

The Kremlin is no longer hiding: the war begins where neighbors choose Europe. 

EU and UNDP to support Donetsk Oblast under Phase II of EU4Recovery

Could German ex-leader really negotiate Ukraine peace?

Russia’s Paid Influence Machine in Latin America: Twisting Public Opinion for Geopolitical Gain

What is Pushing Georgia into Moscow’s Orbit?

Justice for the crime of aggression — the Special Tribunal must put Ukrainian victims center stage

Russia's September election: United Russia will win but the sands are shifting under its feet

Russia and Euroscepticism: Disinformation campaigns about the 'crisis of the West' and their impact on the countries of the Western Balkans 

OPINION: Ukraine’s Recovery and Reconstruction: What Am I Missing?

No End in Sight: Trump, Netanyahu and the Expanding Middle East War

Cold Peace In The Shadow Of Ukraine – OpEd

EBRD and Acba bank enhance private sector support in Armenia

China’s Former Defense Ministers Sentenced to Death With Reprieve: The Reason and the Wider Implications

"The war is coming to an end," Putin said. Is that really true? 

When Propaganda Speaks: How the Kremlin Sees Bulgaria After Radev

Energy, Influence, and Hybrid Strategy in a Narrowing Strategic Space

Journey to Ukraine's eastern front reveals truth behind Moscow's broken ceasefire

No safe harbour

The Western Balkans as the second front of European security

Russian propaganda invents fake hantavirus 'outbreak' among Ukrainian soldiers

EBRD, EU launch financing facility for underserved businesses in Montenegro

WeBalkans launches the 'EU With YOU' campaign, bringing together communicators and entrepreneurs from the region

How to escape Russia’s army: Soldiers serving in Ukraine seek a way out

The Iran-Israel War Presents a Problem for Russia’s Military Supply Chains

Moldova cuts energy ties with Russia. Will breakaway Transnistria follow suit?

Russia's war comes home 

Ukrainian children unlawfully deported and forcibly transferred to Russia: EU sanctions 16 individuals and seven entities

Anti-Putin Conspiracy: The Regime Has Begun to Eat Itself 

The Iran war has strengthened Ukraine in surprising ways. Could a ceasefire with Russia be closer?

Russia’s growing interest in Svalbard

EU and UNDP officially launch EUR 50 million EU4Recovery Phase II partnership for Ukraine

Xi’s Forever Purge 

The Real Goal Behind China’s “Self-Revolution” 

Russia is losing ground for the first time in 27 months. Ukraine’s drones might be why

Azerbaijan’s silent retreat from the Russian frontier: Implications and opportunities

Kidnapping of Ukrainian children: Russia changes approach

Putin’s Censors Lashed by Popular Rage

"Trained in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Russia": Moldovan court cases reveal how recruits end up in Russian sabotage camps

"Is it forbidden to give up on SVO participants?" Russian military personnel bombard Russian authorities in Crimea with complaints

Azerbaijan: EU-funded Covenant of Mayors initiative presents its opportunities to municipalities in Nakhchivan

Chinamaxxing: Beijing’s new source of soft power

Occupation through education: how Russia took over Ukrainian schools

Three Russian diplomats expelled from Austria over spying accusations

Report: Poland, the main target of Russia's hybrid strategy in Europe

Russia does not need to wage open war to regularly and significantly attack Poland.

Putin's May Truce: A Pause for the Parade or a Game of Negotiations - What Will Ukraine Get? 

Mali’s militant attacks expose limits of Putin’s power in Africa

"Roadmap" to the abyss: how the Kremlin is absorbing Belarus

Russia Chartbook by KSE Institute – Oil Export Revenues Surge due to Iran War; Revenues Set to Improve but Budget Situation Would Only Normalize with Long Conflict

OPINION - How to Join the EU in Three Easy Steps

OPINION: Russia Is Bleeding

Welcome to the “New Russia”: The Kremlin is seizing occupied Ukraine

Moscow is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in aggressively building transport and trade infrastructure in the Ukrainian territories it has seized. These projects are inexorably incorporating the occupied areas into Russia and undermining demands by Kiev and its allies for the territory to be returned.

Icebreakers of Influence: NATO and the Dual-Use China-Russia Arctic Threat

New blow to Russia: EU adopts 20th package of sanctions dominated by Ukrainian proposals

Russia's VPN crackdown disrupts banks, marketplaces and government services

How Russia is using disinformation and cyberwarfare to destabilize Europe

"Druzhba", weapons and reforms. Under what conditions will the EU give Ukraine €90 billion and where will the money go?

‘Sent to be killed’: How Russia forces migrants to fight in Ukraine

Russia’s election interference playbook targets Armenia

The rise of ‘drone studies’

European Commission and EIB Group announce new financing package of over €600 million to support Ukraine’s recovery

Xi Jinping’s forever war on corruption

Russia’s FSB tortured 9 Kherson residents for months, fabricated terrorism case against them; 1 died in custody

EU and EIB to boost businesses in partner countries through €1.3 billion financing

How the Russian Federation is "taking away" apartments from Ukrainians in the occupied territories

‘Living on borrowed time’: Russia manipulating data to make its economy look better

Attacks on Infrastructure and the Iran War Weigh on Ukraine’s Economic Outlook 

Wagner-Africa Corps Transition in the Central African Republic: A Three-Body Problem

EU approves €90 billion loan for Ukraine after Hungary lifts controversial veto

EU delivers extra €189 million under Reform and Growth Facility for Moldova

China’s hacking of Russia reveals the boundaries of their partnership

Putin’s Financial Pact: From Business Elites to Ordinary Russians

Russian hybrid threats: EU lists two entities over information manipulation activities

Russia keeps arresting Crimeans. The count just hit 520

BusinessEurope Presents Position Paper on European Competitiveness Fund

Security Guarantees for Russia: Why This Means the Disappearance of Ukraine

Another Chinese Politburo Member Falls

EU Enlargement: Ukraine as a Special Case – the Western Balkans as the Norm

Russia targets elections in Hungary and Bulgaria

Bullying in the Russian army. Torture, beating, rape in the so-called "Putin's brigade"

The Disastrous Paradox of Russian Fear

Transnistria: Pain-Free Reintegration?

Surviving the Russian 'human safari' in Kherson 

5,000 patients medically evacuated from Ukraine for urgent treatment

Three conclusions for Ukraine after Magyar's victory in Hungary

€90 billion for Ukraine and a "kiss of death" for populists. How the Hungarian elections will affect Brussels and Kyiv

Ukraine seizes Russian position without using soldiers in a battlefield first