![](/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/region-europe.jpg)
Latest Articles about Europe
![](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/235273220-640x392.jpg)
Public Intellectuals Muse about Belarus and Russia
Two informative interviews on issues related to Belarus were published in mid-April. Given by Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor of Russia in Global Affairs and the chairman of the non-governmental organization (NGO) Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, as well as Svetlana Alexievich, the 2016 Nobel... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/naftogaz.jpg)
‘Hybrid’ Threats from New Russian Offshore Gas Pipelines
Undoubtedly, Russia’s planned construction of new offshore natural gas pipelines, namely Nord Stream Two and Turk Stream, represents an important element in Moscow’s struggle for domination of the European gas market (see EDM, April 11). However, the development and launch of these pipelines also carries... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Serzh-Sargsyan-Nikol-Pashinyan-e1524380180935-620x300.jpg)
Armenian Events May Frighten Putin Even More Than Ukrainian Ones
The popular mass protests that forced former Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan to resign as the newly installed prime minister of that country—a tactic he copied from Vladimir Putin (albeit with an added change to the constitution) to keep himself in power (see EDM, April 23)—may... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Wagner-soldiers-EDM-April-23-2018-640x359.jpg)
War, Business and ‘Hybrid’ Warfare: The Case of the Wagner Private Military Company (Part Two)
*To read Part One, please click here. On March 28, Russian media presented information that members of the Private Military Company (PMC) Wagner may have been spotted in the East Ghouta region (southwestern Syria), coordinating a “normalization of the post-war situation.” The same sources... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/US-Army-in-Lithuania-EDM-April-19-2018-640x424.jpg)
Lithuanian Social Resilience in the Face of Russia’s Unconventional Hostility
The Second Investigation Department under the Ministry of National Defense published its annual report, the “National Threat Assessment 2018,” on March 26 (Vsd.lt, March 26). This year, Lithuania is celebrating its centenary of independence. And since during the last century, the country was only truly... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Emir-Suljagic-EDM-April-19-2018-640x360.jpg)
Moscow Using Serbs Against Bosnia as It Did Ethnic Russians Against Ukraine
Many Western analysts have focused on the ways Moscow is seeking to use ethnic Russians and Russian-speakers in the former Soviet republics to expand the Kremlin’s influence—both by actually destabilizing these countries or simply raising the specter that it could repeat there what it has... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Abdelkader-Messahel-and-Sergei-Lavrov-EDM-April-17-2018-640x360.jpg)
Moscow Tilts Toward POLISARIO, Against Morocco and Europe
Russia is continuing to shift away from its earlier support of the government of Morocco toward the Polisario Front (Frente Popular de Liberación de Saguía el Hamra y Río de Oro—POLISARIO), which is challenging Rabat for control of a large portion of the Western Sahara.... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Alyaksandr-Lukashenka-April-10-press-conference-EDM-April-16-2018.jpg)
From Kaiser to Lenin: Old-Time Labels and Slogans Reverberating in Today’s Belarus
President Alyaksandr Lukashenka held a press conference, on April 10, for Belarusian state-run media (Belta, April 10). Among the topics broached were the idea of changes to the constitution, the project of the new Law on Information, and March 25 Freedom Day as a would-be... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Ukraine-ATO-forces-EDM-April-16-2018-640x427.jpg)
A Farewell to ATO: Ukraine Shifts Command of Forces Serving Around Temporarily Occupied Territories
Always a misnomer, albeit a deliberate one, Ukraine’s “Anti-Terrorist Operation”(ATO) in and surrounding the temporarily occupied territories of Luhansk and Donetsk is slated to come to an end as of April 30, 2018, some four years after it began. The ATO will cease both on... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/BPR-centennial-640x427.jpg)
Belarus’s Freedom Day: Post-Celebration Anxieties
The March 25 centennial celebration of the Belarusian People’s Republic (BPR) has triggered multiple anxieties and is still reverberating emotionally in the Belarusian media and across online social networks. Somewhat unexpectedly, one epicenter of anxiety has become the speech by the founder and owner of... MORE