List of Eastern Europe articles
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Protesters hold Georgian flags as people gather outside Tbilisi's city court to support Georgia's jailed opposition leader and ex-president, Mikheil Saakashvili. Congress Calls on Georgia to Release Political Prisoners
The request comes just a month after the pro-Russian government turned hoses and nightsticks on pro-Europe demonstrators.
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Farmers harvest a wheat field in Ukraine's Kharkiv region on July 19, 2022, Wheat Is the New Fault Line for Ukraine in Europe
Eastern Europe is irate over imports of Ukrainian grain. That’s by design.
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Weapons and other military hardware delivered by the United States military at Boryspil Airport, near Kyiv. Ukraine’s Spring Offensive Is Waiting on Weapons
Every day Kyiv waits, the Russians dig deeper trenches.
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Normandy landing during World War II Ukraine’s Longest Day
The first 24 hours of the expected counteroffensive will likely be decisive.
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Flags of the US and China are placed ahead of a meeting between US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and China's Agriculture Minister Han Changfu at the Ministry of Agriculture in Beijing on June 30, 2017. Ukraine and Russia Need a Great-Power Peace Plan
How Washington and Beijing could stop the war in Europe.
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Families are reunited with their children in Kyiv. The Kids Aren’t Alright
Kyiv says more than 16,000 Ukrainian children have been taken to Russia. This is the story of a few who made it home.
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An activist is seen through a rainbow flag during a Pride parade in Kyiv. Putin’s Homophobia Is Advancing LGBTQ Rights in Ukraine
Many have begun to associate anti-gay bigotry with imperial aggression.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivers a speech by video during a NATO assembly in Madrid on Nov. 21, 2022. Ukraine Should Follow Finland’s Path to NATO
Kyiv needs a clear membership track, but Washington and Berlin are blocking it.
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A worker adjusts lights above a tourist map of Ukraine at the Ukraine stand of the ITB International Travel Trade Fair in Berlin March 4, 2014. Crimea Has Become a Frankenstein’s Monster
The Ukrainian government is now trapped by its own uncompromising—and increasingly indefensible—policy.
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The Russian Navy and fighter jets take part in a military exercise on the coast of the Black Sea in Crimea. The U.S. and NATO Seek to Blunt Putin’s Black Sea Ambitions
The war in Ukraine exposes a vulnerable seam in NATO strategy.
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James Stavridis, a former supreme allied commander Europe of NATO, moderates a panel talk at the 2018 Munich Security Conference. Why Putin Won’t Use Nuclear Weapons
Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis makes the case for giving Ukraine the weapons it needs to the end the war.
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Georgian opposition supporters rally calling for the government to follow a pro-Western path, outside the parliament in Tbilisi on March 9. Georgia’s Protesters Won the Battle but Not the War
The government backed down, much to Russia’s chagrin, but it could reintroduce a reviled law.
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A Ukrainian special forces soldier stands in front of a burning gas station after Russian attacks in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on March 30, 2022. How to Benchmark Victory in Ukraine
Western vagueness about war aims is creating a risky vacuum for the Kremlin to exploit.
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Latvian President Egils Levits, Slovakian President Zuzana Caputova, U.S. President Joe Biden, Polish President Andrzej Duda, and other participants leave the podium after posing for a group photo in Warsaw. Ukraine Has Shifted Europe’s East-West Fault Line
Eastern Europe is in the driver’s seat. The West should buckle up.
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Jogaila and Jadwiga of Poland It’s Time to Bring Back the Polish-Lithuanian Union
A political construct created nearly 700 years ago offers solutions for Europe today.
