Prime Minister Robert Fico’s shooting sent shock waves through Slovakia.
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The shooting of Robert Fico was ‘politically motivated,’ authorities say.
Fico pictured at the scene of his later shooting on the day of the attack.
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The prime minister remains in hospital after being shot at close range.
Czesław Miłosz (third row, fourth from the left) at the Stefan Batory University of Vilna in 1930.
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The perceived “otherness” of eastern and central Europe is a complex phenomenon, which a new book on the Polish Nobel laureate’s oeuvre brings to light.
Donald Tusk looks set to lead the governing coalition, in large part thanks to female voters.
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The autocratic Law and Justice Party looks set to be turfed out by a center-left coalition, which gained more than half of all votes.
George Soros in a 2017 photo.
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Soros’ giving has revolved around the concept that people thrive in open societies because they can freely express themselves.
Palestinians look out from a damaged building next to scorched cars in the town of Hawara, near the West Bank city of Nablus, on Feb. 27, 2023.
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A scholar of Jewish history explains how the term ‘pogrom’ lives in Jewish collective memory and why its use can be highly contentious.
Smoke rises on April 15, 2022, above 400 new graves in the town of Severodonetsk, Ukraine.
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The West’s new approach to Russia – bar it from international organizations, restrict international trade, prevent further military moves – looks just like how it treated Russia in the 20th century.
Helping forge a post-Cold War identity for the United States.
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A memorial took place on April 27, 2022 for former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who died in March at age 84. Many of the foreign policy concepts she helped bring to the post-Cold War world remain.
Over there, over there (again).
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The Pentagon has announced that as many as 8,500 troops have been put on standby to be deployed in Europe as a counter to the threat of the Russian military buildup on Ukraine’s eastern border.
A wolf in the Białowieża Forest, Poland.
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Historians and scientists discovered how colonisation in eastern Europe changed ecosystems – and the societies embedded in them.
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The Czech Republic, Hungary and Bulgaria all showed early signs of success but have since seen their COVID-19 cases rise.
Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev on a visit to Beijing in 2019. Now China and eastern Europe are going separate ways.
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After a decade of cooperation, central and eastern Europe increasingly sees China as a threat.
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Death rates are low in the region but this has largely gone ignored.
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The government now has the power to do whatever it deems necessary to manage the crisis, effectively for an unlimited period of time.
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A third landslide victory leaves the right-wing leader on a collision course with Europe.
The Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán speaks on March 15 in Budapest. He’s running for reelection.
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This Sunday Hungarians vote whether to return prime minister Viktor Orbán to office. The choice they make will affect the future of their country, and Europe.
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The story began when police discovered the bodies of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancé – both had been shot dead.
Miloš Zeman celebrates victory on January 27.
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Miloš Zeman, who has been re-elected for a second five year term at the Czech president, is not a run of the mill national populist.
Viktor Orbán.
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Poland and Hungary have recently clashed with Brussels over democratic freedoms, but economic drivers are at play, too.
Andrej Babiš, riding high.
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A lurch to the right in central Europe runs into a familiar obstacle: the tricky maths of coalition.