Putin

2020 should have been a great year for Vladimir Putin, but, like for so many other people with big plans for this year, it is ending quite disappointingly. The year promised much in the way of maintaining Putin in power for years to come.…

What should be done with the semi-democratic, post-Soviet countries at the eastern borders? The question has haunted the EU for the last ten years, after its enlargement to ten new members in 2004. The European Neighbourhood Policy, with…

Chi ricorda la storia delle guerre di dissoluzione della Yugoslavia, e specialmente il contesto bosniaco, avrà assistito al conflitto del 2014 tra Russia e Ucraina con un sinistro sentimento di déjà vu. Come da copione, alla costruzione…

After more than three weeks of mass protests against his sixth re-election, it is already clear that Aleksandr Lukashenko, who has been President of Belarus for more than 26 years, lost the political battle over the country’s future. After…

The outcome of the national vote that ended on July 1st on whether Vladimir Putin should be allowed to rule over Russia for another 16 years was preordained. More than 77% of voters supported constitutional amendments that open the legal…