The cheapest countries to live in 2016

THRIFTY LIVING       Want to know where you can get cheap groceries, eat out for less and rent […]

12 Countries That Hate Their Government Most

By Alexander E.M. Hess and Thomas C. Frohlich Europeans went in May to the polls to vote for their representatives to the European […]

East Prussia

The recent development of the events in the former Soviet Union (FSU) brought more attention to the tendencies of aspiration […]

Why Moldova Urgently Matters

By Robert D. Kaplan, Stratfor, “NATO’s Article 5 offers little protection against Vladimir Putin’s Russia,” Iulian Fota, Romania’s presidential national […]

Geopolitical Journey, Part 2: Borderlands

By George Friedman, Stratfor, A borderland is a region where history is constant: Everything is in flux. The countries we […]

Borderlands: First Moves in Romania

By George Friedman, Stratfor, I arrived in Bucharest, Romania, the day after U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. U.S. Secretary of Defense […]

Russia Examines Its Options for Responding to Ukraine

By George Friedman, Stratfor, The fall of the Ukrainian government and its replacement with one that appears to be oriented […]

Ukraine’s Increasing Polarization and the Western Challenge

By Eugene Chausovsky, Stratfor, Just days before the Ukrainian crisis broke out, I took an overnight train to Kiev from […]

CIS region offers unique opportunities for telecommunications providers

From an underserved subscriber pool to a largely underinvested infrastructure, CIS countries such as Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine represent larger […]

Cement markets in CIS countries continue to grow

With an 11% growth in cement consumption in 2010 and a further 12% growth expected for 2011, cement producers in […]