On 9 July 2026, The Economist published a major interview with Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko, prepared after roughly 60 hours of conversations, as well as his by-invitation article “Why a broken Russia is bad for the world”.

On 7 June 2026, parliamentary elections will be held in Armenia. All seats in the National Assembly will be elected. These elections will be the first parliamentary elections after the final loss of Armenian control over Nagorno-Karabakh and the exodus of the Armenian population from the region in 2023. Therefore, the campaign will not be an ordinary struggle between parties, but a vote on what model of state should exist next.

At the end of May 2026, municipal elections are taking place in Italy. This must be stated clearly from the beginning in order not to create a false framework. This is a municipal vote…

On October 3, 2026, Latvia will hold elections to the 15th Saeima. One hundred members of parliament will be elected. Voting in Latvia and abroad is scheduled from 08:00 to 20:00, and from September 28 to October 2 voters will be able to deposit their vote for safekeeping.

Russia will not necessarily collapse at one single moment. Such a scenario is usually imagined as a sharp event: the centre loses control, regions begin to separate, power stops governing, and the state quickly changes its borders.

The question of Ukraine’s accession to the European Union is usually explained through war, corruption, reforms, negotiations, Europe’s fatigue and the position of individual countries.