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On 11 May 2026,  Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs  in cooperation with the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, organised a conference in Stockholm on youth and gender equality issues in Belarus. The forum gathered youth representative of the...

On Monday 27 April, SCEEUS, in cooperation with the Prague Civil Society Centre, co-hosted a panel discussion with representatives from leading Ukrainian independent media outlets ahead of World Press Freedom Day.  The panel, moderated by George Leech, Director of Outreach and Communications at the Prague...

SCEEUS analyst Jakob Hedenskog and centre manager Fanny Wallberg went to Yerevan, Armenia, on 27-30 April to take stock of the upcoming parliamentary elections on 7 June, 2026. Here are their quick impressions.   Armenia is currently in the European spotlight. This week Yerevan hosted both the first ever...

On 28–29 April 2026, SCEEUS and the European Union’s Foreign Policy Instruments convened a closed roundtable in Stockholm on Russia’s escalating digital shutdowns and what they mean for European security, policy, internet governance, and the future of Russian independent media. What stood out most over the...

The Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS) at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) invite you to join a webinar on Russia’s tightening control over internet freedom.

On Wednesday 15 September, SCEEUS hosted a seminar with Andrei Kolesnikov – a well-known author, a columnist for independent Russian publications Novaya Gazeta (Moscow) and Newtimes.ru and a member of the scientific advisory council of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA). The discussion w...

On 31 March, a new chapter in European-Ukrainian collaboration began in Kyiv with the opening of the European Policy Institute (EPIK), launched by Sweden’s Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard, European Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius, and Ihor Zhovkva, Deputy Head of Ukraine’s Pres...

Earlier this week, SCEEUS organised a working lunch in Kyiv together with Ukrainian partners Centre of  Policy and Legal Reform and Ukrainian Centre for European Policy to discuss the country’s public administration reform (PAR). The recent co-written SCEEUS article  on PAR as the foundation of Ukraine’s...

6 March 2026   Klara Lindström   Cyprus shows that it is possible to join the EU without full territorial control   The Republic of Cyprus joined the European Union in 2004, but  Protocol 10  suspends the EU acquis on territory not under governmental control. The  Green Line regulation  regulates trade...

On January 26-27, 2026, SCEEUS, in cooperation with partners from NKK, MERICS, and OSW, hosted the first meeting of the China-Russia Strategy Group in Stockholm. The roundtable convened European stakeholders from government and EU institutions, research institutes, and academia, bringing together expertis...