Iryna Dovgan is one of several women that helped Ukrainian soldiers. But she was caught and imprisoned for several days. She was beaten, injured and humiliated. Today she stands up for her rights and is running in the election campaign.
By
Peter Johnsson
October 25, 2014
"Euromaidan is an anti-amnesia action of a postcolonial nation aimed against a restored post-Soviet space", posts Lyudmyla Pavlyuk, professor in journalism in Ukraine.
By
Lyudmyla Pavlyuk
January 24, 2014
A message on situation in Ukraine from Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych.
(translated by Vitaly Chernetsky, via Andrij Bondar)
By
Yuri Andrukhovych
January 24, 2014
Maidan 2.0. Letter from the Ukrainian PEN Club, Kyiv January 22 2014.
By
Mykola Riabchuk
January 23, 2014
Maidan 2.0. Letter from Kyiv the 10th of December 2013.
By
Mykola Riabchuk
January 23, 2014
The presidential elections of October 27th changed the political landscape of Georgia and showed signs of a mature democracy. The elections marked the end of Mikheil Saakashvilli’s ten year presidency. Giorgi Margvelashvili of the Georgian Dream (GD) won the presidential elections. It was a well administrated election, and the transition of power were peaceful.
By
Arba Murati
November 8, 2013
On October 9 presidential elections were held in Azerbaijan. As a result of the criticized 2009 amendment to the constitution the two-term limit for the presidency was removedand the incumbent, President Ilham Aliyev, could stand as candidate fora third time. Nobody was surprised when he won again.
By
Sofie Bedford
October 24, 2013
Perspectives on the past are charged, not least in Romania. Vladimir Tismaneanu, former chair for the Scientific Council of the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER) is here interviewed about the links between history and politics in Romania.
By
Francesco Zavatti
May 13, 2013
The impression is that the Armenian politicians are balancing the expectations of the Armenian public and the International Community. Both government and opposition have to show that they are responsible politicians that will not resort to violence and that are ready to accept defeat and continue constructive dialogue with their political opponents.
By
Anders Nordström
April 21, 2013
Earlier this year in Vilnius, the Socialist People’s Front leader Algirdas Paleckis was fined 10,400 litas (about 3,000 euros) for denying and grossly downplaying Soviet aggression against Lithuania the night of January 13, 1991.
By
Arne Bengtsson
January 7, 2013