‘Rich as hell’: The ancient tax central to Trump’s playbook
The US president is famously a fan of tariffs. Here’s how they work – and what his latest ones could mean for the world.
Politico Europe2d
Baltic countries sever final power ties with Russia
Disconnecting from the Soviet-era grid faced an intimidation campaign — but it’s Moscow that could be left in a precarious ...
Baltic nations free themselves from the shackles of Russian power grid, switch over to EU networks
Baltic nations, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia will connect to the EU’s power system, 20 years after joining the regional bloc. With this, the Soviet-designed power grid network will now cover only Rus ...
The Caledonian Record4d
Emigration and war hit once-booming Belarus tech sector
Tech has been one of the few relatively liberalised sectors in ex-Soviet Belarus's state-dominated economy. It experienced a ...
Belarus election: how ‘Europe’s last dictator’ held onto power as his opponents were jailed or exiled
The acclamation of Alexander Lukashenko as Belarus president for a seventh straight term was confirmed on January 26. The ...