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Rich and voiceless: How Putin has kept Russia's billionaires on side in the war

The Risk Of War Is Once Again Real: Russia Is Forcing Europe To Face The Truth

IFC Invests in Ukraine’s Insurance Sector to Expand Coverage and Strengthen Business Resilience

China: An Ally Waiting for Russia’s Defeat?

A one-way ticket for Russia. A war of attrition did not lead to the fall of Ukraine.

Putin’s expressionless face

Russia completes 135,000 autumn conscription as Putin sets 261,000 target for 2026

How the Kremlin Responds to Armenia’s Rapprochement with the West – Five Propaganda Narratives

Trostianets: the specific crimes that demand names and answers

Émigrés in Putin’s Crosshairs

The next ‘big bang’: How the EU can fast-track enlargement amid geopolitical tensions

War or Peace: Ukraine

Trump’s peace plan may force Kyiv into a painful compromise, trading security guarantees for concessions in a peace that could prove fragile.

EBRD lends further €150 million for road upgrades in Moldova

With research and icebreakers, China aims to expand geopolitical influence in the Arctic

Architects of Chaos Theory How pro-Kremlin pundits use geopolitical turmoil to explain away Russia’s war against Ukraine

Russia is Losing – Time for Putin's 2026 Hybrid Escalation

Poland preparing €2bn anti-drone fortifications along its eastern border amid Russian threat

Seven Things To Know About The EU’s €90bn Loan To Ukraine – Analysis

Controlled questions, crafted lies: Inside Putin’s year-end messaging machine

Peace on a referendum: what is behind Zelensky's initiative and why experts have conflicting opinions

On borrowed time

How Transnistria is coping without the transit of Russian gas via Ukraine

Losses mount for Russia as 400,000 troops killed or wounded in a year

Western Balkan Cities Join New EU Cities Mission Twinning Learning Programme: Sarajevo, Kumanovo, Elbasan

The rot eating at China’s war machine

"Foreign agents", the Internet, electric cars: what is prohibited and restricted in Crimea in 2025

Raiding in Russia’s Wartime Economy

Peacekeeping forces for Ukraine: what could they look like

Russian general killed in suspected Ukrainian car bomb attack

Swedish navy encountering Russian submarines ‘almost weekly’ – and more could be on the way

EU Agrees To $106 Billion Loan For Ukraine After Shelving Russian Asset Proposal

EIB provides over €74 million to support essential public services across Ukraine

A New Axis of Disinformation: What Europe Must Do Now

Russian Oil Tracker – November 2025: Ukrainian drone strikes cut oil exports from Tuapse threefold

No progress from the Miami round of Ukraine peace talks

When Borders Tighten, Propaganda Inflates: The Kremlin’s Border Disinfo Playbook

OPINION: Ukraine After the War: Scenarios, Risks, and Europe

Accelerate the accessions: Why faster is better in EU enlargement policy

Why Russia is in its weakest position since 2022

Is the end of Serbia’s dependence on Russian gas approaching?

Putin Decree Forces Foreigners Seeking Russian Residency To Sign Army Contracts

EBRD partners with Tegeta Motors to transform Georgia’s automotive sector

Russia's Arctic gambit with North Korea and China

In the context of war. How demining is going on in Ukraine

EU enlargement in the Western Balkans: All together now?

Russia's Undeclared War on the Northern Front

After Berlin. What to expect from the negotiations?

Prospects for a peace agreement

Russian hybrid threats: Council sanctions twelve individuals and two entities over information manipulation and cyber attacks

The Serb militants fighting for Putin – and preparing for a new Balkan war

EU dismisses Russia's lawsuit against Euroclear as 'speculative' and groundless

Why Russia is So Resilient

Balkan Barometer 2025: High support of WB citizens for EU membership – 64 percent

China stays quiet amid new Ukraine peace talks

As Western powers scramble to reach a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, China maintains close ties with Moscow and weighs its strategic interests

Academic rigour

How Kremlin-backed super-app MAX is gradually being made obligatory in Russian schools

Why Russian attacks on Ukraine harm Moldova's power grid

Donbas and Beyond: Territorial Obstacles to Peace in Ukraine

How Russia keeps raising an army to replace its dead

Russia’s Pervasive Influence in the Western Balkans

Peace plan drama — Ukraine and Europe hand US revisions as Trump grows 'sick of meetings'

UK sanctions Russian and Chinese firms suspected of being 'malign actors' in information warfare

Ukraine Facility: Council approves sixth payment of around €2.3 billion to Kyiv

Frozen Russian assets: What the EU wants and why Belgium opposes it

EU and the Western Balkans: Cross-Border Cooperation for Better Practices

Russia's disinformation campaign in Armenia gains momentum

“You will be taught – and you will become Russians”: how Ukrainian teenagers resist Russian re-education

Russia and the rise of the disinformation-for-hire industry

Avoiding Jail, Bosnian Serb War Criminal Joins Russia’s Ukraine Invasion

Where and in what conditions are Ukrainian prisoners held in Russian custody (and brutally tortured): Highlights of the Memorial Center report

EU allocates €15 million for more resilient Armenia

Xi Jinping’s Grip on the Military Is Getting Stronger, Not Weaker

"Not on the List." How Kidnappings by Russian Security Forces Have Become a Daily Phenomenon in Crimea

Russian arms revenues rise 23% as domestic war demand offsets export collapse

I’d defend our nation’: Poles prepare for growing threat of war

A Rebirth in Flame: Ukraine’s Beleaguered Energy System

EU adds Russia to the FATF’s money laundering blacklist

Flaws In Putin’s Art Of No-Deal For Peace Become Apparent – Analysis

BE-BB signs in Tirana a grant of 54 million euros for the development of transport in the Western Balkans

Rewriting world history to redefine the global order: Xi’s claim to China’s moral right to lead

Russia sends kidnapped Ukrainian children to camps in North Korea for "re-education"

Opinion: 'Georgian Dream moves closer to Russia, and more shameful episodes may follow'

The ECB refused to guarantee a reparations loan of 140 billion euros. Does Ukraine have other options?

EU bans Russian gas imports after last-minute agreement

The Western Balkans versus Russia: Different paths to security, sanctions, and hybrid threats

The wrong way to peace in Ukraine

EU4UA Defence Tech: EU and Ukraine launch new €3.3 million BRAVE1 grant programme

From Mines To Solar Plants, Chinese Projects Face Rare Legal Setbacks In The Balkans

When propaganda replaces policy: Russia’s water crisis in occupied Ukraine

EU4Energy boosts renewables integration across Eastern Partnership countries

Putin is losing his grip on Eastern Europe

As Bulgaria and Serbia tread carefully between Moscow and the West, Russian oil exports slump

What can force Putin to sign the agreement? There are three main levers.

Russia corporate debt burden risks rise, 17 leading companies in trouble

Russian drones fly undeterred over Moldova and Romania

ANALYSIS: Legal Shield for Foreign Fighters: Russia a Hideout for International Criminals?

EFSE expands partnership with Bank Respublika through EUR 15 million local currency investment to boost MSME lending in Azerbaijan

Marching on Quicksand: How Corruption is Undermining China’s Military

Putin: Russia ready to fight until last Ukrainian dies

"It's not worth it - they'll either put you in jail or blow you up." Ukrainian teenagers recruited to sabotage their own country

Baltic nations suffering from Russia sanctions win EU relief

Any serious Ukraine peace plan must address Putin’s imperial ambitions

A Multidimensional Intervention in Combating Human Trafficking in the Western Balkans

How China and Russia are joining forces to conquer the Arctic

How Russian propaganda scares Ukrainians with demographic crisis and migrants