Michael Shafir served as a supervisory research analyst at the Open Media Research Institute in Prague, Czech Republic, from January 1995 to March 1997.
In East-Central Europe, neither physical proximity nor memories of Soviet domination have united countries in their response to the war in Ukraine. What matters most is who stands to benefit.
Today, there are three parts of the old Soviet bloc—one is democratic, another is wholly authoritarian, and a third “intermediate” group is caught between two worlds. This last should be…
