Programme of Choice
Hungary, Russia, South Caucasus

Osteuropa 1-2/2026
Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel (Ed.)
Berlin 2026 [ = Osteuropa, 1–2/2026]
168 pages, 17 figures
Price: 24,00 €
ISBN: 978-3-8305-5673-2

Deutsche Fassung

Contents

• Sergej Lebedew
  Impunity Begets Impunity
  On the Continuity of Terror and War in Russia
• Timm Beichelt
  Authoritarianism and Its Friends
  On the Appeal of a Form of Rule
• Katharina Raabe
  A Galician Sisyphus
  Laudation for Yuri Andrukhovych

• Upheaval and Continuity

• Kai-Olaf Lang
  “A Plebiscite on the Country’s Future”
  The Election Campaign in Hungary
• Ellen Bos
  Change of Power in Hungary
  The Parliamentary Elections of April 12, 2026
• Roland Götz
  Unabated Decline
  Russia’s Oil Revenues and the Iran War
• Alexandra Prokopenko
  The Logic of Loyalty
  Russia’s Servile Technocrats
• Zaur Gasimov
  A Balancing Act in the Fog of War
  On the State of Russian-Iranian Relations
• Anna Gevorgyan
  Dancing across Divides
  Armenia and the War Against Iran
• Uwe Halbach
  Fluctuations and Tensions
  Domestic and Foreign Policy in the South Caucasus
• Nikolay Mitrokhin
  Russia’s War Against Ukraine
  Bi-Weekly Reports April 2026 to May 2026
• Hans-Henning Schröder
  Ideology and Power Resource
  On the Rise of “Traditional Values” in Russia