Russia Western countries: Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova Baltic states: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan Caucasus: Georgia, ...

One-tenth of the gas produced in Russia is exported to Western Europe, where it satisfies one-fourth of Western European demand. Ukraine is the main country through which Russian gas flows to foreign ...

The 1990s witnessed one of the most dramatic economic transformations in modern times, as the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union abandoned central planning ... In fast-growing ...

But, unlike during the Cold War and despite Russia's military modernization attempts, the Kremlin's military might remains deeply inferior to that of the former Soviet Union. This inferiority is ...