Following Ukraine, Serbia, Romania, and Poland here is the latest in our series of five unpopular opinions about the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. This week, it’s Bulgaria. Now, over the ...

The first significant Russian strategic defeat as a direct consequence of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine is the loss of its Mediterranean outpost. Vladimir Putin’s obsession with Ukraine has led ...

Three decades since declaring independence from the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan is finally about to ditch the Cyrillic alphabet. At the end of January 2021, the Kazakh government finally announced plans ...

Internet memes have become an integral part of contemporary online culture and some of the most common social media approaches to commenting on current events and issues. Meme formats come and go, but ...

In the race for semiconductor self-sufficiency, Poland has become one of Europe’s leading contenders—carving out a space for itself in a market dominated by the world’s tech giants. The global ...

Challenges there may be, but Albania’s economy is broadly in a good place. A boom in tourism is driving growth at levels above most of its regional peers. While tourism across most of the world has ...

Hungary is leading European engagement with Turkic nations, with its motives rooted in a nationalist narrative that benefits Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. In mid-November 2022, the leaders of ...

Amid a steady increase in the number of tourists, business travelers, and passengers transiting through Chișinău International Airport (RMO)—ranked third in Europe among airports with annual traffic ...

Ukraine’s Orthodox Church split from its Russian counterpart in 2018. We explain why. In October 2018, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church officially split from its Russian counterpart, after more than 300 ...

In the latest of a series of articles drawing on the original analysis and data collected by Emerging Europe as part of our Future of IT report, we look at Croatia: an IT sector increasingly punching ...

History in Central and Eastern Europe is rarely simple. The legacy of Cossack leader Bohdan Khmelnitskiy – a hero to some, traitor to others – is just one example, a fascinating case study of how ...

In the latest of a series of articles drawing on the original analysis and data collected by Emerging Europe as part of our Future of IT report, we look at Belarus, a once promising IT sector ...