The current political economy of Russia is failing to deliver on long-term growth economic growth.

With violations of Minsk II being reported up and down the front, Mariupol is looming large as the next flashpoint in Ukraine.

Unconfirmed sightings of Russian subs and newly assertive Russian air power is causing some Scandinavian states to re-think NATO membership.

Europe’s ‘frozen conflicts’ have taken on added importance to the Putin government in the new normal of EU-Russia relations.

The Western media has been quick to insinuate that Vladimir Putin may have had something to do with the recent killing of Boris Nemtsov, but the facts seem to suggest otherwise.

Two days into the Minsk ceasefire and it already looks like a little bit of history repeating.

In this series, Geopoliticalmonitor.com analyzes political fallout from the global plunge in oil prices. Part three focuses on Russia.

An uptick in fighting over the past month has done little to draw global attention to the civil war raging on Europe’s doorstep. But a US plan to arm government forces could change all that.

2015 will set the tone of US-Russia relations for decades to come.

With every crashing through of a symbolic threshold - $90, $80, $70, and now $60 – many are wondering: How low can the price of oil possibly go?