Hungary has frozen the prices of food essentials as the cost of living rises amid a bitter campaign ahead of…
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Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan move to end border clashes but tensions remain high on ill-defined frontier
Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan have agreed a ceasefire after shooting along their contested border left two Tajiks dead last week. Kyrgyz…
Hungary PM challenger needs ‘miracle’ to beat ‘populist dictator’ Orban
Hungary’s opposition leader Peter Marki-Zay (pictured) says the odds are stacked against his six-party coalition taking on a “populist dictator”…
Serbia scraps US2.4bn lithium mine project amid heavy protests as election looms
After Novak Djokovic’s vaccine travails, relations between Serbia and Australia have suffered further as the Serb authorities scrapped Rio Tinto’s…
Hungary’s populist prime minister Orban faces tight electoral contest on April 3
The Hungarian general election has been set for April 3 with semi-autocratic populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban facing his biggest…
Turkey and Armenia hold first talks to establish diplomatic ties and reopen border
Turkey and Armenia have opened talks in Russia to normalise bilateral ties in the expectation of establishing diplomatic relations and…
Kazakhstan president vows to kill ‘terrorist’ protesters while calling in Russian help
Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev says his security forces will “shoot to kill without warning” and labelled protesters as foreign-backed “terrorists”. …
8 Jan 2022
Ethnic Kazakhs in Afghanistan struggle to resettle in their increasingly unstable homeland
8 Jan 2022
OSCE questions fairness of Hungary’s spring election as Orban struggles with plausible challenger
24 Dec 2021
European Commission launches legal action against Poland over supremacy of EU law
18 Dec 2021
Turkey’s financial markets flounder as Erdogan’s policies baffle employers
12 Dec 2021
Bosnian-Serb MPs vote to abandon national military, taxation system and courts
5 Dec 2021
Turkish lira tumbles but Erdogan continues to defy economic logic on interest rates
29 Nov 2021
Belarus to host military drills with Russia on Ukraine border
29 Nov 2021
Covid-positive Czech president Zeman appoints new prime minister Fiala from plexiglass box
26 Nov 2021