DespiteBorders

Edward Lucas is a correspondent for the British weekly The Economist. He focuses on the countries stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. He speaks fluently four languages: English, German, Polish and Russian. He has been covering the region since 1986. He monitored the fall of the Iron Curtain in the former Czechoslovakia. In the period from 1998 to 2002, he headed The Economist bureau in Moscow…

Current world is developing rather quickly, so quickly that people are often unable to analyze events, current international situation, substance of conflicts and wars, of new geopolitical alliances and of geostrategic placement of forces. Although media draw nearer distant events and create a possibility to gain up-to-date information about various events, they do not offer a complete picture of political processes…