Georgia’s new prime minister is gunning to evict the president from the country’s immense presidential palace. Literally.

Libor Michalek,, who publicized corruption at the Czech Environmental Ministry, won election as a senator in a landslide victory and is wondering if he should now try for president. .

What it is about Belarus that brings out the funny?

Post-Dayton Bosnia is broken. Can it be fixed?

The Russian dissident punk rockers open up to GQ about their lives in prison

The question is in the air this week with Belgrade saying it might hold a referendum on Kosovo

By gaining full independence this week, Kosovo reached a political milestone. But major hurdles remain.

Fear inspired the EU’s creation – will fear save it?

How do rural working class Russians really feel about Vladimir Putin?

A group of 30 intellectuals, Protestant ministers, and theologians even released a petition calling for the bill to be withdrawn, saying it would turn Christ’s teachings on their head.

The feminist rockers have put Putin’s Kremlin firmly under the international microscope

A newspaper owned by the ruling Nur Otan party won $23 million in state tenders from 2009 to 2011.

As their ‘hooliganism’ trial ends, Russia’s newly famous feminist rockers stand firm

The converse of immunity, of course, is that the more of it you have, the more impunity you enjoy.

A billionaire and satellite dishes are getting a lot of attention, but increasing repression is hitting less-visible targets, too.

Judging by his first 60 days in office, the Russian president could be turning into his own worst enemy

Who would have thought Hungary, of all the former Warsaw Pact countries, would be inching toward authoritarianism today?

With Kosovo gaining full sovereignty in September, what are the security implications?

Romania’s new prime minister decides to set his own precedents.