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Czech organizations are providing psychological help to Ukrainian refugees, but the needs are great. Like many refugees, 39-year-old Anna Savchenko still shivers at the thought that a Russian bomb...

by Bohdan Vykhor and Andreas Beckmann At the recent Lugano reconstruction conference, planning for a sustainable economy and climate change was notable by its absence. The Ukrainian government and...

Exiled authorities say cholera has broken out, but can information from the Russian-occupied city be trusted? From Rubryka. In recent days, the Ukrainian news has been buzzing with headlines about...

The Big Story: Refugee Support on the Chopping Block in Czechia What happened: The Czech Republic is scaling back support for Ukrainian war refugees, according to reports from Czech Radio, Romea.cz,...

A mass of international migrants, turned back at the EU border, is building up in Bosnia, yet NGOs say their hands are tied by bureaucratic obstacles. by Katie Tiffin With thousands of refugees and...

Kyiv and Washington are calling on Ukrainian separatists not to stop the pumps in a mine where a small nuclear bomb was detonated in 1979. 20 April 2018 Ukrainian Ecology Minister Ostap Semerak said...

Budapest says the new fence will deter the expected surge in migrant numbers. Hungary, the first EU country to put up border fences during the migrant crisis, is building a stronger line of defense...

Bulgarian media are reporting suspension of readmission agreement, but Turkish Embassy denies major change. Turkey has unilaterally suspended its refugee readmission agreement with Bulgaria,...

Starting this week, EU countries can send back non-EU citizens who enter the bloc from Turkey illegally. Bulgaria’s preparations for an expected uptick in migrants crossing from Turkey are coming in...

New EU proposal for asylum reform includes fines for those who do not comply and elicits predictable response from region’s politicians. 5 May 2016 Central European leaders have loudly voiced their...

Last year’s floods were the worst in 30 years, made even more damaging by a combination of institutional inefficiency and changing weather patterns. by Semir Mujkic 24 November 2015 Rajko Duranovic...

Bosnian town where 8,000 Muslims were massacred should become ‘bridge of cooperation,’ Serbia’s premier says. Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic this week announced that his country would donate...

Poverty has long been the main reason people leave, but now there's another incentive. by Bakyt Ibraimov 3 June 2011 OSH, Kyrgyzstan | Emigration from Kyrgyzstan is nothing new. Hundreds of...

Yet again in the Caucasus, the internally displaced are being treated as pawns in a game without rules. by TOL 4 February 2011 Historically, the Caucasus has been a place of displaced people, but...

Ethnic Uzbeks in Osh fear losing their homes and land whether to vigilante posses or legal maneuvers. by Temir Akmatov 13 January 2011 OSH, Kyrgyzstan | Early in November hundreds of Kyrgyz horsemen...

As the brutality continues in southern Kyrgyzstan, aid workers and firefighters find themselves at risk. From EurasiaNet. by Alisher Khamidov 15 June 2010 OSH | Not only is southern Kyrgyzstan...

by Hamid Toursunov The violence in southern Kyrgyzstan that took more than 100 lives over the past week has been widely described as ethnic clashes, with gangs of young Kyrgyz men targeting members...

After 10 years, many Romani refugees from the Kosovo conflict can neither return to their old homes nor build new ones abroad. by Michael J. Jordan and Shejla Fidani SHUTO ORIZARI, Macedonia, and...

Kyrgyzstan's ethnic Russians, isolated and increasingly powerless, are heading to the Motherland in droves. by Hamid Toursunov 25 March 2010 OSH, Kyrgyzstan | Natasha Antonova was born 37 years ago...

by Ivana Howard 25 February 2010 Civil society needs to stand up to Bosnia's new hate-speech demagogues. As Bosnia lurches toward a train wreck of political confrontation prior to the October general...