Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)

Ahead of the parliamentary elections in Georgia on 26 October, the country’s government has adopted an unprecedented approach to campaigning, stylising the election as nothing less than a vote to save the country from utter ruination. The decision, it says, lies in the hands of voters.

Western sanctions aimed to make it more difficult for Russia to access foreign technologies and thus drive up the cost of waging war against Ukraine. Their success has so far been limited. How has Russia managed to avoid the worst effects of technological sanctions?

Hundreds of thousands of Russians left Russia after February 2022. A new ZOiS report analyses the political views and socio-economic profile of these new migrants in five prominent host countries, challenging the perception of them as a homogeneous group.

Most Karabakh Armenians who fled Nagorno Karabakh in September 2023 were drawn to Armenia as their ‘mother’ state. Previous surveys show that they have a strong Karabakh-Armenian identity and seek their own political and cultural representation. But the Armenian government has other plans.

A new ZOiS report sheds light on the different trajectories of displaced young Ukrainians in Poland who are currently living in Warsaw. It supplements qualitative interview data from a long-term study with survey data.

In his new book 'Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability', Michael Kimmage frames Russia’s war against Ukraine as three overlapping conflicts and traces their origins in the post-Cold War period and the longer history of Russia’s relations with Ukraine, Europe and the US.

by Nadja Douglas, Weronika Grzebalska, Kornely Kakachia, Andrei Kazakevich, Asbed Kotchikian, Yuliia Kurnyshova, Inna Șupac, Joni Virkkunen

It has been two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Our focus gathers relevant information in the form of videos, podcasts, publications and assessments of our experts in the media.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a war of aggression that we condemn in the strongest possible terms. Against this background, we have decided to suspend all institutional cooperations between ZOiS and Russian state institutions. However, in the spirit of academic freedom, the academic partnerships our researchers have established with individual researchers in Russia will continue, as far as this is possible.