A convention about unpredictable past? One event, that happened at the end of 2017 and for obvious reasons remained almost unnoticed, brilliantly illustrates one global trend and thus is worth [...]
Ukraine's Constitutional Identity vs “Russian World” In their Position on Article 7 of the Law on Education submitted to the Venice Commission, the Ukrainian authorities specifically referred to the notion [...]
Hungarian education in Ukraine: how to find a balanced approach? The adoption of the new Law on Education in Ukraine has triggered significant attention in several capitals throughout Europe. The [...]
Why is Belarus important for diversity studies? It turns out that most people, even those who professionally deal with national minority issues, perceive the topic of cultural and ethnic diversity [...]
Preamble to Latvia’s Constitution: How to Evade the Venice Commission? The production and institutionalization of official historical narratives remain predominantly a domestic issue in Europe. The available human rights monitoring [...]
Do you feel OK when talking about ethnopolitics? Hopefully, new large conflicts or drastic ethnopolitical shifts are unlikely to happen in Central Europe and Eurasia in a foreseeable future. Perhaps, [...]
The 2011 Hungarian Constitution: a Virtual Placebo against Historical Traumas? The lack of coherence between minority-related instruments and domestic historical narratives provides for potential escalation of interethnic and interstate relations. [...]
The Stability of Multiethnic Transnistria: Preconditions and Reasons Transnistria, or Transnistrian Moldovan Republic, is a polity, an unrecognized state that broke away from Moldova in 1990 and became de facto [...]
Decentralization in Ukraine: an Opportunity for National Minorities? The process of decentralization is designated as one of the priorities of the current Ukraine’s authorities who aim to vest powers, resources, [...]
Aleksejs Dimitrovs: the EU has no effective tools to deal with minority rights in general The growth of populist and illiberal tendencies can be observed in the domestic policies of [...]
