Politics and democracy

Analysis

Diplomacy

Full-scale war in Ukraine is not inevitable. We journalists must stop suggesting the contrary

By Nataliya Gumenyuk

Opinion

Diplomacy

How we Ukrainians have learned to live with the spectre of a Russian invasion

By Veronika Melkozerova - The Kyiv Independent (Kyiv)

Press cartoon of the week

Defence and security

Roll out the red carpet

By Tjeerd - Cartoon movement (Amsterdam)

Ideas

Archipelago USSR

From the USSR to Maidan, a corridor of memories

By Kateryna Mishchenko

Press cartoon of the week

A man of many hats

By Plop & KanKr

Analysis

Fortress Europe increasingly stingy on asylum

By Francesca Spinelli

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A turning point for illiberalism in Europe?

By Cas Mudde

Reportage

Balkans

Dead end Sarajevo

By Fabio Papetti

Press cartoon of the week

Covid-19

2021 as seen by Tom

By Tom Janssen

Photo Story Subscribers

Balkans

Bosnia and Herzegovina: “Justice for David” – seeking answers

By Jeanne Frank

Ideas

Archipelago USSR

Back in the USSR – again

By Viktar Martinovič

Report

Migration and asylum

On both sides of the Polish-Belarusian border, a solidarity that defies persecutions

By Anton Trafimovich

War made sustainable: how green investment funds bankroll the arms industry with EU backing

Gaslighting in politics: how a female experience became universalised

Politics and democracy