Auteur/autrice : Nikita Taranko Acosta
Balkans 2026 : de l’euro à l’élargissement
Normes, géopolitique et convergence avec l’Union européenne — une perspective de terrain
Par Nikita TARANKO ACOSTA, Genève — septembre 2026
Chercheur et analyste indépendant pour le think tank genevois CREER
Responsable Europe, Caucase & Asie centrale, ISO
Auteur de « Zone Euro : Les Enjeux des Pays Non-Membres », CREER … Lire la suite
Migration crisis on the EU external border and Belarusian state propaganda
By Nikita Taranko Acosta
Geneva, November 11. Thousands of migrants have attempted crossing into Poland this Monday, November 8. It appears that this event has finally brought more attention to the extremely delicate situation that has been escalating over the last months around the Polish-Belarusian and Lithuanian-Belarusian borders. The scale … Lire la suite
Le Bélarus après les élections de 2020 : le bilan
By Nikita Taranko Acosta
Depuis qu’Alexandre Loukachenko s’est autoproclamé vainqueur d’un sixième mandat en 2020, le pays traverse une période de turbulences politiques, économiques et sociales sans précédent, même si les enjeux remontent au début de sa présidence en 1994 lorsque la dérive autoritaire devient une tendance et s’installe dans … Lire la suite
Geneva, 15th of June 2021
By Nikita Taranko Acosta
The day has almost arrived. Geneva is hosting a meeting between President Biden and President Putin on the 16th of June. This is the first European trip for the Russian President since nearly 1’5 years of isolation due to COVID-19, and his first time to … Lire la suite
The Union State of Belarus and Russia and the Eurasian Econonomic Union
by Nikita Taranko Acosta – Geneva
Abstract
Almost immediately after the collapse of the USSR, first integration projects in the post-Soviet space were envisioned and began to emerge during the second half of the 1990s when Russian foreign policy started to shift towards the traditional focus of its sphere of … Lire la suite
Transnistria, unrecognized nation-state: in search of its national identity, between Russia and Moldova
By Nikita Taranko Acosta – Geneva
In this paper, I endeavour to approach the process of nation-building as a result of a secessionist movement in what is known today as eastern Moldova, which gave birth to the unrecognized state of Transnistria1. My method of analysis includes the following: … Lire la suite
Invented Traditions and the Cult of Stalin
By Nikita Taranko Acosta – Geneva
“Utopias are dreams of collective deliverance that in waking life are found to be nightmares” (Gray 2008, p.24). In this essay I will try to work out on the concept of invented traditions prior to delving into the intricacies of the cult … Lire la suite
The modern Russian identity through History : Peter the Great and the Napoleonic War
By Nikita Taranko Acosta
How far did Peter the Great’s reforms transform Russia into a Country Fitted for its New European Status?
This paper aims to analyse both positive and negative effects of Peter the Great’s numerous reforms. It will conclude that despite some negative outcomes, Peter’s vision and active … Lire la suite
Zone euro : les enjeux des pays non membres
Par Nikita Taranko Acosta – Genève
Perspectives des États de l’UE en dehors de la zone euro
La politique de l’élargissement de la zone euro est parmi celles qui ont connu, initialement, le plus de succès quant au projet européen, à l’instar de la politique de l’élargissement de l’Union, la … Lire la suite
Celui qui construit le mur en devient ensuite le prisonnier*
Par Nikita Taranko Acosta – Genève
L’Union européenne et la solidarité : une crise existentielle ?
La rupture de confiance intra-européenne et la montée de populismes et nationalismes en réponse aux défis migratoires
Celui qui construit le mur en devient ensuite le prisonnier (Sandro Gozi)
Les rudiments de ce qui … Lire la suite