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The nightingales singing to the wounded How Ukrainian medical staff save lives under fire

Author(s): Kateryna Pryshchepa / Language(s): English Issue: 03+04 (56)/2023

Ukraine’s military has set up special medical stabilisation points (stabs, for short) near the frontlines to provide immediate treatment for wounded soldiers. These points, which are just a few kilometres from the front, are manned by dedicated medical staff and volunteers who work to save wounded soldiers coming out of Bakhmut. A recent visit to one of these points tells the story of these harrowing moments of sacrifice and hope amidst the chaos of war.

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Belarus between a difficult yesterday and an uncertain tomorrow

Author(s): Henryk Litwin / Language(s): English Issue: 01+02 (59)/2024

Building upon the ongoing analysis of the research group “BELARUSUKRAINE-REGION”, which was established at the Centre for East European Studies at the University of Warsaw in autumn 2020, and in cooperation with New Eastern Europe, we present a series of sketches depicting the situation in Belarus during the second half of 2023. The region of Eastern Europe has become a stage for dramatic events since the Russian aggression against Ukraine, which predominantly captured the attention of experts. The future of Eastern Europe primarily depends on the resolution of the war in Ukraine, which was caused by Russia’s imperial ambitions.

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Why Putin is the product of Russian democracy

Author(s): George HAJIPAVLI / Language(s): English Issue: 01+02 (59)/2024

As we find ourselves less than two months away from the Russian presidential election, this analysis offers a timely and direct rebuttal that Putin’s downfall will arise from Russia’s democratisation. Instead, Russian democracy enabled Putin’s climb to power in the first place, while his protracted popularity constitutes a core factor that enables his regime to propagate at present.

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From dignity to victory

Author(s): Maria Górska / Language(s): English Issue: 01+02 (59)/2024

Six months after Russia’s invasion started, I gave birth to my child and breastfed her for the first time in a bomb shelter, to the sound of sirens. I moved from Ukraine to Poland with my baby and despite the joy of motherhood I had never felt so much loneliness and darkness as I did there, far from home, when my country was fighting the enemy, and I was not. But soon I joined the fight for victory.

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Ukrainian refugees with HIV adjust to care abroad

Author(s): Lily Hyde / Language(s): English Issue: 01+02 (59)/2024

Ukraine has the second-largest HIV epidemic in Europe after Russia. Those refugees who fled the full-scale invasion to Poland with HIV have been forced to seek treatment and adjust to different approaches to the disease. In the end, the experience can provide lessons on how to better help those afflicted with the disease.

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Who are the Russians fighting on the side of Ukraine

Author(s): Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska / Language(s): English Issue: 03 (60)/2024

After Russia invaded Ukraine, around a million Russians left the country and moved abroad, fearing mobilization or in protest against the war. While most of the new exiles are involved in different types of political or social activism, a small minority has decided to take up arms against their own people. They have organized into battalions fighting on the side of Ukraine.

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Minority communities and their future in Ukraine. The case of Roma

Author(s): Stephan Müller,Natali TOMENKO,Volodomyr Yakovenko / Language(s): English Issue: 03 (60)/2024

Today, all of Ukraine’s communities are fighting to protect the country from Russian aggression. This includes the Roma, an ethnic group that faces particular challenges in relation to their place in society. The integration of Roma, both now and after the end of the war, will be a key test regarding the success of a new Ukraine.

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Rethinking Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies in the West

Author(s): VERONICA SNOJ / Language(s): English Issue: 05 (57)/2023

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine since February 2022 has impacted academic research on the region, forcing students and staff in western university departments to rethink their interests and curricula.

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The Long Exodus

Author(s): WILLIAM FLEESON / Language(s): English Issue: 05 (57)/2023

The ongoing war in Ukraine has forced many refugees to make tough decisions about their future. is is particularly true in neighbouring Moldova, where many Ukrainians are deciding to settle on a more long-term basis. Despite the difficulties of this new life, a large number of refugees are trying to make the best of the situation.

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Between “Trojan horses” and an “Anti-China Vanguard”?

Author(s): Emilian R Kavalski / Language(s): English Issue: 06 (58)/2023

While China may be growing into an economic, military and technological giant, the experience of Central and Eastern Europe indicates that this “hegemon in the making” is much more vulnerable and isolated than it likes to believe. At the same time, wishing China away is impossible. At the same time, ignoring the fact that China is already a stakeholder in the complex European landscape comes with great risk.

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China and Russia. A strategic partnership with many limits

Author(s): Alexander Lanoszka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 06 (58)/2023

The threat of a China-Russia alliance poses significant geopolitical challenges to the United States and the European Union. However, the strength of the Sino-Russian relationship may not be as powerful as they declare

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China’s role as a pro-Russian mediator in ending the Russia-Ukraine war

Author(s): Arsen MARTYSHCHUK / Language(s): English Issue: 06 (58)/2023

A debate has grown regarding Beijing’s relations with Russia and its war against Ukraine. While China has offered support to Moscow, it is important to remember that the rising power has other wider interests. Overall, it seems that China will always put its own interests first with regards to the ongoing conflict.

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A common red line? Limits of European engagement in Russia’s war against Ukraine

Author(s): Christos Katsioulis / Language(s): English Issue: 06 (58)/2023

The Russian war against Ukraine has substantially changed perceptions of conflict and crisis in the European Union. As a recent comparison study shows, the conflict has encouraged fears of war, awareness of developments in Ukraine, questions concerning the broader frame of this war, and the involvement of the respective countries in it.

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From Kyiv to Korea. How the shockwaves of war reverberated across Eurasia

Author(s): Anthony Rinna / Language(s): English Issue: 06 (58)/2023

The war in Ukraine is encouraging geopolitical change across the world. This is particularly true with regards to the Korean Peninsula, with Russia growing closer to its traditionally quiet ally in Pyongyang. Both North and South Korea are now faced with navigating an uncertain geopolitical climate with no end to the war in sight.

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Zelenskyy’s formula for peace

Author(s): Anton NAICHUK / Language(s): English Issue: 06 (58)/2023

In October 2022, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, announced a “peace formula” to overcome the Russian threat during a meeting of the G7. Since then, it has become the guiding principle in Ukraine’s international diplomacy and efforts to end Russia’s aggression once and for all.

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Ukrainians’ complicated embrace of NATO

Author(s): Oleksii Lionchuk / Language(s): English Issue: 06 (58)/2023

Throughout almost the entire period of Ukraine’s independence after the fall of the Soviet Union, the idea of NATO membership remained a contentious topic with little support among both society and politicians. It was not until the Russian aggression in 2014 and full-scale invasion of 2022 that Ukraine’s perspective on its place in the transatlantic Alliance decisively changed.

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Off-SHORe politics. How Gagauzia was sold to a pro-Russian oligarch

Author(s): Irina PERCEMLI / Language(s): English Issue: 06 (58)/2023

The Gagauz minority in Moldova represents a unique blend of Turkic ethnicity and Orthodox Christian identity. But it was neither its authentic culture nor mysterious history that brought it into the media spotlight recently. Instead, it was a number of outrageous events signalling that Gagauzia is increasingly becoming a destabilising force for the pro-European government in Moldova.

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Roma refugees from Ukraine face additional adversity

Author(s): MADELEINE CUCKSON / Language(s): English Issue: 06 (58)/2023

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a large portion of Ukraine’s Roma population escaped as refugees alongside their fellow Ukrainians. However, they were not always met with open arms and many faced additional challenges and discrimination.

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Fear of Russian drones creates anxiety in Romanian villages

Author(s): Vlad Iaviță / Language(s): English Issue: 06 (58)/2023

As Ukraine has been trying to re-route its crucial wheat and corn exports via its ports on the Danube river, Russia has begun targeting them. Their proximity to Romania creates a significant risk to the local residents, who feel their concerns remain unaddressed. Drones or fragment of drones have already crashed on this NATO country’s territory, with little recourse.

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Migrants on the border (of the Polish imagination)

Author(s): Piotr Augustyniak / Language(s): English Issue: 06 (58)/2023

What makes Poles help Ukrainian refugees yet indifferent to the fate of migrants on the Belarusian border? Is this determined solely by the right-wing propaganda, which portrays the Ukrainians in good terms and those in Belarus in essentially bad ones?

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