In the fallout from mass protests, Maidan Nezalezhnosti has become a symbol of determination among ordinary Ukrainians to fight for their rights and freedoms. Andrei Aliaksandrau reports from Kiev.
The world's spotlight has moved on from Azerbaijan. But Azerbaijan is still beset by intimidation and violence, leading newspapers are under attack and independent journalists like Khadija Ismayilova and Idrak Abbasov continue to find...
Croatians voted Sunday to amend the constitution to define marriage as being between a man and a woman. The campaign had been orchestrated by the country’s religious institutions. Barbara Matejčić reports
Authorities of Belarus want to join the Bologna process without changing their old-style system of education, and the thing they want the least is academic freedoms, writes Uladzimir Matskevich
The whole system that should ensure a functioning public opinion in Belarus is perverted, writes
As the body representing UK vice-chancellors releases new guidelines on external speakers on campuses, we look at some cases where they could have been put to use
Nominations are now open for a writing award for people and organisations contributing to the profile of Czech literature around the world. The award, set up to commemorate a former editor of Index on Censorship, is presented at the Prague Book Fair in May.
Turkey’s media proprietors seem all too willing to play along with practices that make the country feel like a corrupt central Asian republic, says Yavuz Baydar
Yahya Hassan has caused nationwide debate with his poetry, which is critical of Islam and parts of the Danish immigrant community
Julia Farrington hits the north for the Art Party conference