Rumania, bah! It is neither a state nor a nation, but a profession. —Nicholas II of Russia The floods came early to western Rumania, spilling in thunderous green torrents from the snowy Carpathians, ...

PRAGUE - Wojciech Cie?la clearly recalls the moment last November when a letter arrived at his home that summoned him to the prosecutor's office in Warsaw, Poland. A journalist for two decades, the 46 ...

Writing for CNN.com, George Soros, philanthropist and financier, traces the roots of his nonprofit Open Society efforts in Central and Eastern Europe and their impact on the collapse of communism ...

György Dragomán was 3 when his father taught him to protect the family's privacy by lying to neighbors and teachers who were often informants for the Hungarian regime. "From then on I lived a double ...

Since the fall of Communism, Eastern European countries have made a lot of progress catching up with their wealthier neighbors. But not in one crucial area: building trusted, independent judiciaries.

WARSAW, Poland >> In the Latvian capital of Riga, an obelisk that soared high above a park to commemorate the Soviet Army’s capture of that nation in 1944 was toppled last week. It crashed into a pond ...

This article assesses the degree of policy responsiveness in the new democracies of post-communist Europe. Panel data on economic reform and public opinion show that public support for reform has a ...

China wants to double trading volumes with central and eastern members of the European Union in the next five years, Li Keqiang said on his first visit to the former communist bloc as premier. China ...

With European leaders at odds over their relations with Communist China, Prime Minister Meloni of Italy is stirring the pot by breaking away from her predecessor’s reliance on Beijing. Italy intends ...