Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)

Many Georgians have a positive view of the EU and its values. The current protests against a new law inspired by Russia’s ‘foreign agent’ legislation are a case in point. A ZOiS study shows that Georgian migrants in Western countries influence values in their country of origin.

International Children’s Book Day has been celebrated annually on 2 April with readings, exhibitions and fun activities for children and teens since 1967. In some countries, however, there is little cause for celebration. In Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, children’s literature is in a precarious state, for a variety of reasons.

Over 218,000 Ukrainian refugee children are enrolled in German schools. Parents’ perceptions of the main changes in their children’s schooling relate to a shift from teacher-centred education in Ukraine to learner-centred education in Germany. This trend matches the aim of a major school reform in Ukraine.

Ukraine is faced with a substantial and complex challenge .In this episode, we explore how the processes of rebuilding Ukraine and EU accession are connected.

In their new book ‘Non-Democratic Federalism and Decentralization in Post-Soviet States’, Irina Busygina and Mikhail Filippov show how modern authoritarian regimes like Russia use supposedly democratic institutions to their benefit and turn them into tools to enable them to survive politically.

This report highlights the role of the Russian authorities’ management and governance in dealing with the sanctions and adapting the economy. For this purpose, it scrutinises the adept responses of Russia’s financial leadership to four distinct crises over the past 15 years.

It has been two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Our focus gathers relevant information in the form of videos, podcasts, publications and assessments of our experts in the media.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a war of aggression that we condemn in the strongest possible terms. Against this background, we have decided to suspend all institutional cooperations between ZOiS and Russian state institutions. However, in the spirit of academic freedom, the academic partnerships our researchers have established with individual researchers in Russia will continue, as far as this is possible.