Ideas

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Europe at large

Germany and the Albatross of silence on Gaza

By Philippe Sands

Georgia Blue Horns

Caucasus

The Georgian poets who defied Stalin – and the ones being silenced today

By Anna Gvarishvili

Russian Imperative

Culture

Pushkin & Putin: How Russia turns culture into a weapon

By Zaal Andronikashvili

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Culture

Slavenka Drakulić (1949-2026), a moral compass for Europe’s wars and silences

By Carl Henrik Fredriksson

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Caucasus

Mussolini in Tbilisi – A tale of today’s Georgia

By Archil Kikodze

A 2024 mural painting by Gosh Art in Tbilisi. | Photo: DR

Caucasus

Georgia’s unfinished European journey: the university question

By Nino Doborjginidze

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Caucasus

In Georgia oligarch power opens the door to pseudoscience in universities

By Giorgi Lomsadze

The fragility of peace – Kustovsky

Culture

Oleksandra Matviichuk: Hope is understanding that all our efforts have meaning

By Oleksandra Matviichuk

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Arts

The Louvre heist in a post-heroic Europe

By Carl Henrik Fredriksson

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Cinema & documentaries

The method and the madness of “owning” Greenland

By Carl Henrik Fredriksson

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Enlargement

Turkey’s Kurdish gambit: A peace process in name only

By Cengiz Aktar

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Europe at large

Repression in Georgia is moving fast. Europe and Germany must act now

By Hans Gutbrod