New Eastern Europe

New Eastern Europe is a unique bimonthly news magazine focused on the happenings in Central and Eastern Europe. Our editorial team operates out of Krakow, Poland. This initiative is a collaborative effort between the City of Gdansk, the European Solidarity Center, and the Jan Nowak-Jezioranski College of Eastern Europe. The aim of New Eastern Europe is to foster discussions, deepen understanding, and promote dialogue on the challenges facing countries that were once part of the Soviet Union or influenced by it. Unlike a traditional academic journal, we adopt a journalistic style, featuring commentary and analysis from a range of contributors including journalists, experts, analysts, writers, historians, and both Eastern and Western political figures.

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Russia is stealing Ukrainian grain. It wants to do so without any restrictions

4 days ago | neweasterneurope.eu | Daniel Gleichgewicht

In one of the rounds of negotiations between the US and Russia at the end of March, Russian representatives raised the issue of the “Black Sea Initiative”. This was enacted and implemented in 2022 with the support of Turkey and the UN to allow for the safe export of grain from Ukrainian Black Sea ports. However, after a year, the Russian government withdrew from the agreement.
“Russia has lost sensitivity to death. Death validates it now”

1 week ago | neweasterneurope.eu | Daniel Gleichgewicht

Three years ago, Ukrainian forces retook Kherson in what was then hailed as a major turning point in the war. At the time, Professor Andrey Makarevich, a political scientist at the University of Tartu and long-time observer of Russia’s authoritarian evolution, told me that Vladimir Putin would not survive a second Kherson. But that second Kherson never came.
In the digital shadows, Belarusian cyber partisans unnerve Lukashenka

1 week ago | neweasterneurope.eu | Daniel Gleichgewicht

Much of today’s warfare unfolds in digital silence. Resistance nowadays often takes place in lines of code, through the exploitation of software vulnerabilities and the quiet extraction of sensitive information. When classified data is stolen, it can be passed to military commanders to inform real-world operations, including precision strikes. These actions can have significant impact – even shaping the course of a battle such as in Ukraine – yet the public may never know that they occurred.
Issue 3/2025: Negotiating peace?

1 week ago | neweasterneurope.eu | Adam Reichardt

Click here to subscribe and get access to this issue plus all previous issuesTo purchase a single copy of the issue click hereAs Donald Trump was fighting for his next presidency we often heard his promise that under his leadership Russia’s war against Ukraine would end in a day. Even if treated as a metaphor, this promise was to suggest that a fast ceasefire was possible. This vision, a dream for many, could not unfortunately come true.
Collectively, we are losing this war

1 week ago | neweasterneurope.eu | Adam Reichardt

NEW EASTERN EUROPE: Let us look at the changes that are taking place globally. We clearly see some shifts in the world order. Do you think we are entering a completely new phase of global politics? SERHIY SYDORENKO: We are not entering it; we are already in it. This is undisputable.
Russia’s war is undermining the world order

1 week ago | neweasterneurope.eu | Adam Reichardt

Russia’s war is undermining the world order Since 2014, Moscow has been transforming global affairs in the interests of international revisionism. This has already caused considerable damage to international law and the global rules-based order. In fact, the political implications of Russia’s attack reach far beyond Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Going into its 11th year of war against Ukraine, the results of Russia’s attack on its alleged “brother nation” are ambiguous for the Kremlin.
Trump’s new political technology

1 week ago | neweasterneurope.eu | Adam Reichardt

Trump’s new political technology It’s bad enough that Trump lives, to use Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s words, “in this disinformation space”. Countries like Ukraine have to cope with Trump imposing his virtual reality on the rest of us. In 2023 I finished my book Political Technology: The Globalisation of Political Manipulation (see: www.politicaltechnology.blog).
Will Trump’s peace-making efforts increase the likelihood of a bigger war?

1 week ago | neweasterneurope.eu | Adam Reichardt

Will Trump’s peace-making efforts increase the likelihood of a bigger war? While the US tries to present itself as an honest broker engaged in shuttle diplomacy, it is difficult not to perceive its efforts as favouring the Russian side. Even before negotiations with Russia had started, the US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, said Ukraine’s NATO membership and the possibility of recapturing territories occupied by Russia were off limits.
Where do Ukrainians find the strength to stand?

1 week ago | neweasterneurope.eu | Adam Reichardt

Where do Ukrainians find the strength to stand? Hope and anxiety are the two feelings that Ukrainians are experiencing the most during the current war. A recent survey shows that for 55 per cent of Ukrainians, the strongest feeling that they were experiencing at the end of 2024 was hope. Anxiety came in second with 45 per cent. The winter of 1948. Europe is returning back to normal life after the years of the Second World War.
Anti-colonial hybrid defence: how Ukraine’s resistance fights in the occupied territories

1 week ago | neweasterneurope.eu | Adam Reichardt

Anti-colonial hybrid defence: how Ukraine’s resistance fights in the occupied territories Between 2022 and 2025 Ukraine’s resistance managed to inflict persistent losses and disruption on Russian forces in the occupied territories. The kinds of operation – from bombs and bullets to spies and sabotage as well as raids and ambushes – show a comprehensive guerrilla strategy aimed at eroding the occupier’s control.