The contrast between the Russia–Ukraine war and the US–Iran confrontation exposes a core inconsistency in Europe’s response: strong in words, absent in action.

Europe has long been capable of describing its problems. What it struggles with is answering a far more difficult question: what vision of the future it is prepared to offer—to the world and to itself.

Sanctions that were intended to exert pressure are, in practice, creating exceptional operating conditions for Raiffeisen. As a result, sanctions policy is effectively being transformed into a mechanism for redistributing mar...

The hearing confirmed that this is not an isolated case, but a systemic problem — a crisis of trust in the EU’s sanctions policy and in the principle of equal application of the law.

Europe loses the moral authority to demand from others what it is not prepared to ensure within itself. Because double standards are the strongest justification for any injustice.

In my old essay The Remaking of Eurasia in Foreign Affairs I proposed an alternative vision for engagement among post Soviet states.

The story of Tikhanovskaya’s registration reflects the essence of Belarus’s electoral system. Here it is not the law that determines who becomes a candidate, but the regime’s fear of genuine alternatives.

I was removed from the race. In response, people lined up—at district election commissions and at the Central Electoral Commission.