Russia

On February 19th, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic signed into law a draft agreement regulating Serbia’s relationship with NATO, following its passage in parliament on the 12th of February. The agreement calls for free passage of NATO personnel throughout Serbia as ...

The Russian Government has approved a document containing a list of services and activities that Turkish companies or companies headed by Turkish individuals are restricted from carrying out on the territory of the Russian Federation. Published on the Russian Government ...

Since the downing of a Russia Su-24 by Turkish forces, Russian president Vladimir Putin has vowed to retaliate until Turkey apologized for shooting down the aircraft. The retaliation has so far consisted of sanctions against some Turkish economic goods, blocks ...

Each week The Vostokian republishes a compilation of the most relevant Eastern European news courtesy of The Elicitor. You may find the original here. “Russia and U.S., While Pushing for Peace Talks, Jockey for Position in Syria” by Anne Barnard ...

Each week The Vostokian republishes a compilation of the most relevant Eastern European news courtesy of The Elicitor. You can find the original here. “Пенсионеры перекрыли главные улицы Сочи и Краснодара” (newsru, 15 January 2016). “How ‘eastern Ukraine’ was lost” by ...

Each week The Vostokian republishes a compilation of the most relevant Eastern European news courtesy of The Elicitor. You can find the original here. “С Асадом или без: может ли закончиться война в Сирии в 2016 году” by Александр Артемьев (РБК, ...

The most peculiar thing about Macedonian politics today is that voters actually have it easy. A highly turbulent 2015 in Macedonia has given birth to an unlikely silver lining which many developed democracies could only ever yearn for: when the ...

Ukraine-related sanctions imposed on certain Russian and Ukrainian persons and entities in response to crackdown on the Maidan protests and Russian intervention in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, have been in place for over a year now. In spite of the ...

After Russia annexed Crimea in March 2014 EU and the USA implemented sanctions against Russia restricting its access to capital markets. This, combined with high demand for dollars and euros and a fall in oil prices caused the exchange rate ...

Twenty-six years after the official end of the Cold War with the now historic handshake between George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev in Malta in 1989, the East-West dilemma could not be more alive in the Western Balkans. To many ...