Detaching Russia from the commercial flows that bind it to the West is easier said than done.

Recent events in Ukraine have once more put the spotlight on the need for Central and European governments to diversify their energy imports.

Part two in a two-part series on how political crisis in Ukraine plays into great power competition between Russia and the West.

Examining how Vladimir Putin has used Russia's anti-gay law to deflect other criticisms during the Sochi Games.

The Geopoliticalmonitor's James Whitman argues that the West is failing to respond to the creeping authoritarianism of Yanukovych's Ukraine. 

What does President Obama's summit snub mean for the future of US-Russian relations?

Georgiy Voloshin examines the motivations underpinning Russia's push to establish a "Eurasian Union" in Central Asia. 

Lithuania is casting off its Soviet-era dependence on Moscow and looking towards the EU for its future energy security.

Eastern Europe is still tattooed by the Soviet Union. Breakaway regions in Georgia and Moldova—Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria respectively—are autonomous territories in everything but name.

Canada’s combat role in Afghanistan will almost certainly end in a little over two years, if not sooner, due to a convergence of recent events.