Russia
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2 February 20126The Guardian London
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11 January 2012PresseuropDie Tageszeitung
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Diplomacy
When values are stage dressing
16 December 20115El Mundo Madrid -
14 December 2011NRC Handelsblad Rotterdam
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EU/Russia
Kaliningrad gets closer to Europe
14 December 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
12 December 2011Kommersant Moscow
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Transnistria
Stooges’ ballot in Tiraspol
9 December 2011România libera Bucharest -
Editorial
Our neighbour Putin
2 December 2011Presseurop -
30 November 20117Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw
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8 November 20111Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich
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Natural gas
Gazprom gains first European foothold
8 November 20112PresseuropLe Monde -
7 November 2011NRC Handelsblad Rotterdam
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Eurozone crisis
And if Greece goes...
4 November 201113Le Figaro Paris -
Debt crisis
The Moscow-Beijing option
25 October 20112PresseuropExpansión -
Eastern Partnership
The East, not on the EU’s mind
29 September 20111Polityka Warsaw -
29 September 20111PresseuropDie Presse
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Estonia-Russia
The apartments that lead to Schengen
28 September 2011Postimees Tallinn -
26 September 2011Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich
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26 September 20111PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza
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23 September 20111Respekt Prague
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Lithuania
Basketball, a question of independence
7 September 2011Libération Paris -
Czech Republic-Slovakia
A Soviet take on the Prague Spring
22 August 2011PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES -
1991-2011
A Baltic triumph
19 August 2011IQ The Economist Vilnius -
Anniversary
The coup that ended the USSR
19 August 2011PresseuropTribune de Genève -
Middle East
Europe has a role to play
28 July 20111Al Hayat London -
Bulgaria
Sofia cracks down on Lukoil
28 July 2011PresseuropDnevnik -
Cyprus
An explosion some saw coming
12 July 2011PresseuropPolitis -
EU-RUSSIA
Progress thwarted by killer cucumbers
10 June 2011PresseuropNezavissimaïa Gazeta -
European Union
Back to the nation
8 June 201124Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Editorial
Hanging on
20 May 2011Presseurop -
Russia-EU
Who will open this window on Europe?
10 May 20111Polityka Warsaw -
6 May 20111PresseuropRzeczpospolita
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Estonia
Some nationality disorder
5 May 20113Postimees Tallinn -
Internet
Crime spreads on the web
5 May 20112PresseuropLa Voix du Luxembourg -
Romania
A khaki-coloured American dream
4 May 20111Jurnalul Naţional Bucharest -
28 April 20111PresseuropSME
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Railways
Berlin-Moscow soon at high speed
26 April 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Geopolitics
Bucharest gets foothold in Caucasus
18 April 20111PresseuropRomânia libera -
Belarus
Croesus from Minsk
4 April 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Editorial
EU foreign policy running on empty
25 March 20111Presseurop -
Natural gas
Putin peddles South Stream to Slovenia
23 March 2011PresseuropVečer -
Nuclear energy
Chernobyl to Fukushima – media gets it wrong
17 March 2011Postimees Tallinn -
EU-Russia
Barroso and Putin spar over gas deal
25 February 2011PresseuropEUobserver.com -
10 February 2011Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich
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Co-operation
Weimar Triangle needs a few more notes
8 February 20111Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Eastern Europe
Transniestria looks to Russia, not EU
27 January 2011EUobserver.com Brussels -
Poland
Two truths about Smolensk
19 January 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Asylum Rights
Welcome, you’ve just been Dublined
18 January 20111Le Monde Paris -
13 January 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita
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Baltic states
Where minorites must hold their tongue
6 January 20114De Volkskrant Amsterdam
Ten of thousands of Russians are making Cyprus their home from home. A trend that raises questions about Nicosia’s diplomatic and pecuniary relations with Moscow. 
United by common interests but separated by different values, Europe and Russia have been obliged to engage in a political game in which the Europeans plead for democracy and Moscow pretends to listen. The 15 December EU-Russia summit in Brussels is a case in point. 
The secessionist region of Moldova is to hold presidential elections on 11 December — a vote that will be marked by a strange bargain between its Russian protector and Germany, which aims to resolve a conflict that has been deadlocked for 20 years. 
Afraid they will at the mercy of the Albanian majority once Serbia is forced to recognize Kosovo in exchange for EU members, a growing number of Kosovar Serbs have requested Russian citizenship. But "Slav solidarity" is a myth. 
The EFSF was meant to save the single currency. And yet it has found no buyers. Investors are shying away from a complicated, uncertain financial product whose weaknesses the politicians are trying to cover up. 
What if Greece leaves the EU? Professor George Prevelakis argues that it is an eventuality that would prompt a new geopolitical upset in the Balkans. As for the EU, it would be forced to acknowledge its inability to “Europeanise” a member state of 30 years standing. 
As the Eastern Partnership summit opens in Warsaw, the EU, which is caught up in the ongoing financial crisis, appears to have little enthusiasm for the project, launched by Poland in 2008. As for the partner countries, they continue to present a wide spectrum of political systems, ranging from dictatorship to democracy.
Following a trend that has intrigued local authorities and real estate agents, more and more Russians are buying apartments without ever setting foot in them. The reason for this strange behaviour is that owning a home in Estonia makes it easier to apply for a Schengen visa. 
The trial of the former premier resumes Sept. 27, three days after the visit of President Yanukovych to Russia. It’s a game of high strategy between Kiev and Moscow, in which Europe has a role to play too. 
The particular fervour gripping Lithuania, which is currently hosting EuroBasket 2011, is part of a long tradition in a Baltic country that has expressed its identity on the basketball court since Soviet times. 
In August 1991, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia declared their independence from a collapsing USSR. Despite a few hiccups along the way, twenty years on they have definitively turned the page on Communism and come back to their roots in Europe. 
After years of playing a secondary role in the Arab world, the EU now has an opportunity to exert a positive influence in a region where the United States and Russia have failed to respond to radical change. An Al-Hayat columnist outlines how Europe can make a difference. 
The European Union was the best thing that could have happened to the continent. But over the years it has grown into a demon, uncontrollable and impossible to throw out of office. To avoid collapse, there is only one road open: back to the nation. And back to democracy. 
Residents of a region that considers itself to be a “window on Europe,” the population of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, which is located between Poland and Lithuania, want Moscow to establish closer links with the EU. In particular, they are hoping for an end to a requirement for visas for European travel: an “iron curtain” that separates them from Western modernity. 
Since 1991, Estonia has tens been home to tens of thousands of “non-citizens” — Russian-speakers who settled in Estonia in Soviet times. Their numbers are decreasing, but too slowly. Is this Moscow's fault? 
The 3rd May announcement that the former military base in Deveselu has been chosen as the site for part of the American missile defence shield has brought a glimmer of hope to an undeveloped corner of southern Romania. 
In 1986, Estonians were Soviet citizens and had no idea what was going on at Chernobyl. Today they are members of the European Union, but whether they are better informed is questionable, writes the daily Postimees. 
A film by a German director about the Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky was to premiere at the Berlinale. But it’s been stolen – and the director is afraid. 
At their February 7 meeting in Warsaw the Polish, German and French leaders agreed to bolster their trilateral cooperation. High time, writes Gazeta Wyborcza, to counter fears of a two-tier EU. 
The 350,000-or-so people living in the separatist Transniestria region want to integrate with Russia despite a new wave of euro-optimism on the other side of its unofficial border with Moldova. But their views are shaped by decades of repression. 
Karina and Rouslan fled from Chechnya to France, before being deported back to Poland, their point of entry into the EU. Le Monde reports on an absurd itinerary dictated by the Dublin II regulation. 
The linguistic rights of the sizeable Russian and Polish minorities in the three former Soviet republics, which joined the EU in 2004, are hardly recognised. A Dutch journalist deplores governmental intransigence on the issue of languages.