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Country Passports

Essential guides to the countries behind Europe’s headlines: how power works, whose stories remain unseen, and how history shapes the present.

The countries behind Europe’s headlines

Who holds power? Which histories shape the present? Whose stories remain out of sight?

Our country passports offer a starting point for understanding the countries at the heart of Europe’s debates. Each brings together essential facts, political institutions, peoples and languages, historical turning points and relations with the European Union. Maps and linked sources help you explore further.

Belarus Country Passport
Belarus beyond Lukashenka: political power, repression, a history shaped by more than Russia, and a society whose stories deserve to be heard.
Europe’s Blind SpotsAlbert Stulens
Georgia Country Passport
Discover Georgia through its politics, history and European aspirations, with a closer look at minority languages, civic resistance and occupation.
Europe’s Blind SpotsAlbert Stulens
Moldova Country Passport
Discover Moldova through its politics, history and European aspirations, with a closer look at migration, Gagauzia, Transnistria and the Dniester.
Europe’s Blind SpotsAlbert Stulens
Russia Country Passport
How Russia works beyond the Kremlin: its political system, peoples and languages, imperial legacies, war economy and relationship with the European Union.
Europe’s Blind SpotsAlbert Stulens

More passports will be added as the series develops. The passports will also be updated regularly, and important changes and developments will be added as soon as possible.

About the series

A country is more than its government. These guides connect the institutions of power with the societies and histories that can disappear behind them. Dates and sources accompany the figures, and each passport will be updated as the series develops.