New Eastern Europe 1-2/2020

Table of Contents Issue 1-2/2020 (January-March)

OPINION & ANALYSIS

The West Berlins of our time
An interview with Brian Whitmore

The end of the belle époque
Paweł Kowal

A renewed strategic dialogue with Russia? A debate

Putin has done nothing to deserve an extended hand from the West
David J. Kramer

France-Russia, a love-hate history
Cyrille Bret

To Macron or not to Macron?
Liana Fix

How not to be a useful idiot in relations with Russia
Agnieszka Legucka

A “Grand Bargain”. What would Russia want?
Igor Gretskiy

A clash of narratives
Wojciech Michnik

The battle of the USSR in Georgia rages on
Beka Chedia

Rough road ahead for Belarus
Maxim Rust

A real game changer in the region
Adam Balcer

What’s next for Ukraine’s oligarchs?
Anton Naychuk

God, luck and Viktor Orbán
Edit Zgut

The intervention in Kosovo revisited. Twelve lessons for the future
Visar Xhambazi

Illegitimate election observation and conflict resolution
Daria Paprocka

Russia and its Tatar diaspora in Europe
Aleksandra Kuczyńska-Zonik

ART, CULTURE AND SOCIETY

The drama of the Polish outsider
Krzysztof Czyżewski

The Swedish Academy and Peter Handke. Justice for whom?
Joanna Hosa

The revolution on the periphery and the reflection of 1989 in Slovakia
Samuel Abrahám

STORIES AND IDEAS

No one will hear us if we scream
Omar Marques

Herzog continues puzzling love affair with Gorbachev
Kristijan Fidanovski

Azerbaijan. A new chapter?
Anna Zamejc

The Herculean task of saving Europe’s oldest spa town
Elizabeth Short

INFORMATION AND THE BATTLE FOR HEARTS AND MINDS

The poisonous apple
Wojciech Przybylski

The role of a journalist in the age of disinformation
Adam Lelonek

Freedom and censorship in the post-truth era
A debate during the 34th Days of Contemporary Art in Białystok

HISTORY AND MEMORY

Mostly annihilated…
Krisztián Ungváry and Márton Ványai

EASTERN CAFÉ

You can run, but can you hide?
Luke Harding

Devoted to the truth
Paulina Siegień

Forbidden love in a patriarchal society
Eva Modebadze

New dark times. A warning against the spread of Putinism
Ostap Kushnir

Ukraine 101
Margarita Novikova

Discovering Paraska Horytsvit
Mariia Kashchenko