The Fight for Russia’s Borderlands

If the two countries cannot reach an agreement before the current agreement expires Dec. 31, Russian gas deliveries to Europe via Ukraine could well experience interruptions.

Stratfor explains Uzbekistan's struggle to maintain internal unity while balancing against its regional neighbors and external powers.

Moscow would couple any new deployments of its intermediate-range missiles with rhetoric blaming the United States for the treaty's collapse and subsequent weapons buildups.

The U.S. national security adviser is on a tour of Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova in a bid to make inroads against the Kremlin.

With his party on course for a big win in legislative elections, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says he wants to solve the conflict in eastern Ukraine, but that'll be easier said than done.

Despite winning concessions, demonstration organizers continue to call on citizens to take to the streets of Tbilisi as a wary government weighs its next move.

The frontier state's pro-Russian and pro-EU blocs have banded together to oust a common foe, but their vastly differing foreign orientations will make them awkward partners.

Regardless of the specifics of Warsaw and Washington's potential new defense agreement, any increase in the U.S. military position in Poland -- no matter how small -- is bound to prompt Russia to build up its own position.

Washington and Warsaw could ink a deal for a permanent deployment of troops as soon as Sept. 1, which will undoubtedly prompt Russia to build up its own military presence in neighboring Belarus.

The succession process itself will be smooth, but once acting President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev takes over, he'll have to deal with growing instability, economic slowdown and the competition for influence between China and Russia.