A special envoy to the Caspian Sea region would help counter China, Russia, and Iran—and end the impression that Washington ...

Donald Trump has said he wants Ukraine to supply the US with critical resources in exchange for financial support in its war ...

Google says it will rename the Gulf of Mexico on its U.S. maps, and Mexico is pushing back. This wouldn't be the first body ...

Russian banks last year hit a record net profit of 3.8 trillion rubles (some $41 billion). A report from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation on Thursday said the corporate loan portfolio of ...

Research on the former Soviet region explores geopolitics of various states, the domestic, foreign and security policy of Russia, and the conflict in Ukraine. Key projects currently include responding ...

In annual terms, inflation in Russia as of January 27, 2025 (according to calculations based on average daily data for the current and previous year on similar dates) amounted to 10.13% MOSCOW ...

A victory for Putin means, in due time, a re-charting of the entire map of Europe, to suit his vision of a Russian empire that never lost the Cold War. The only way to end the war in Ukraine is to ...

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Since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia’s economy has surpassed expectations. Its figures are, if not rosy, not ruinous either. Last year, the war economy likely grew faster than ...

Russia's latest economic figures show it had a strong 2024. But economists are suspicious, believing its data don't stand up to scrutiny and is inflated. This week, Trump threatened high tariffs ...

Since the early 2000s, Russia's economy began recovering from the financial crisis of 1998, supported by rising oil revenues, which significantly improved consumer purchasing power. This period saw a ...