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The formation of a new government offers modest hope of progress in the path to Europe
Britain's demise could be opportunity for, rather than threat to, England, and no barrier to the social citizenship the left seeks
A decade's recourse to Europe's human-rights convention offers Moscow troubled lessons
The old continent was once the model for a new world. No longer. But its elites are in denial
The assaults on Italy's Roma people are driven by politics and prejudice. The remedy is in the roots
Modern European history shows why representative democracy is better than direct
The Irish "no" to the Lisbon treaty is a political test for the whole European Union
A vigorous contest between two leading authors over nation, diversity, agency, racism, change
Turkey's political fissures test its stability and put its orientation towards Europe in question
The idea of a referendum as instrument of the people's will belongs to a pre-democratic era
Recent Kiev's election for mayor has not helped to solve Ukraine's political crisis.
Recently, a young Polit.ru journalist from Moscow undertook to live for a month off the sum officially calculated as sufficient to live on. In this second report, she admits she is ill-equipped, and suffering cravings
A university colleague's arrest over downloaded research materials reflects a climate of fear
The love of millions is invested in Bob Dylan. But can we know too much to see him? (archive)
Solutions to self-determination disputes are better found through compromise than confrontation
Russia is tightening its pressure on its small Caucasus neighbour. This time it's serious
Three years after the Uzbek massacre, Germany leads a shameful collusion with Islam Karimov's brutal regime
The outcome of Serbia's fourth election in two years passes the advantage to the political power-brokers
Judith Herrin unearths the roots of the "cosmopolitan" and finds a vital source for understanding the globalised present
The political and legal crisis in Turkey highlights a vital European interest
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