Eastern Europe

Despite attacks from abroad and corruption at home, Ukrainian democracy isn't failing—it's thriving.

The country’s youngest party has united the left and right against Viktor Orban.

Seeing Baku as a strategic partner, the United States and Europe overlook rights violations.

Ireland voted to liberalize abortion laws. The far-right government in Warsaw is moving in the opposite direction.

When politicians own the press, trolls have the last laugh.

More journalists are assassinated than die in war zones.

In a country where even the anti-corruption prosecutors abuse their power, it's hard to say who the good guys are.

As the European Union takes long overdue measures to punish the Hungarian regime, the prime minister appears to be moving from rhetorical to real repression.

A journalist’s murder shocked the country in February, but it hasn’t led to a more independent media.

Steve Bannon is trying to sell Trumpism to Eastern Europeans—but shared ideologies die hard when they run into economic and military realities.

Russia could have done something to prevent sexual exploitation of foreign women during the World Cup. It chose not to.

Post-1945, post-1968, and post-1989 Europe are all different — and none of them make sense anymore.

The new Spanish prime minister has refused to follow Italy in a race to the bottom, but that doesn’t mean that Madrid will lead the EU to adopt more humane migration policies.

A Russian media executive says he’s come to Washington to test the limits of American freedom.

Viktor Orban may have won, but a narrow loss in the countryside suggests that corruption could one day be his undoing.

The Jobbik party, once known for its overt racism and anti-Semitism, is trying to reinvent itself as the responsible voice of the center.

The outgoing national security advisor took one last swipe at Putin’s efforts to undermine Western democracies.

Russian corruption starts small but quickly spreads.

By condoning corruption and denouncing the press, Slovakia's government created an atmosphere in which journalists became targets.

The Marshall Plan recognized the limits of U.S. power in Europe. To be successful, so must diplomacy with Moscow today.