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The man whose victory brings change to Transdniestria after two decades. The weight of expectations is heavy enough for any new political leader to shoulder, but the burden...

Protesters are back on the streets of Moscow, but the rest of the world does not seem to care. Twenty years ago, the new democratic leaders of Russia were left to be dragged...

Russia's leaders are discovering that what was accepted yesterday is regarded as intolerable today. Russia is not Egypt. And Moscow is not on the eve of revolution as Cairo...

Moldova's foreign minister has a European outlook. Multilingual, courteous and unassumingly cosmopolitan in his outlook, Iurie Leanca symbolises a new generation in Moldovan...

The UK prime minister's visit to Moscow also reveals much about the EU's relationship with Russia. David Cameron makes his first visit to Russia to meet his opposite number,...

Simply isolating Belarus is unlikely to change anything for the better. Much ink has been spilled by journalists and commentators describing the disappointing course of...

The EU will be sending out dangerous signals if it fails to take action following December's rigged election. The post-election crackdown in Belarus is a bleeding wound in...

Lithuania, Belarus and Russia are competing to be the Baltic's energy power. Over the past year, a high-stakes nuclear race has begun in the Baltic region, with the winner...

Russia has made clear that it wants Alyaksandr Lukashenka unseated as Belarus's president. December's elections are now crucial and unpredictable. Suddenly, in the eyes of...

Lithuania's prime minister has steely determination, and very poor popularity ratings. It takes a certain kind of individual to spend the summer holiday bike-riding and...

Algirdas Brazauskas, a communist who led Lithuania out of the Soviet Union, has died aged 77. Lithuania's experience of Soviet rule was a little different to that of its...

EU leaders must speak up about the situation in the North Caucasus. At recent summits with Russian leaders, European and US leaders have largely been mute about the spread...

The death of a Polish president in Russia could bring Warsaw and Moscow closer together Ever since the end of the Second World War, reconciliation between nations and their...

Libyan defence minister attends meeting, EU foreign policy chief does not. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton did not attend the two-day informal meeting of EU defence...

Does the Russian president's proposal to change the energy system strengthen the case for making the International Energy Agency more global? For the past two months, the...

Might the ascent of the Free Democrats break the vicious circle in which Germany and its neighbours find themselves? Eastern Europe owes a huge debt to the Germans. West...

Can Turkey and Russia develop a ‘win-win' energy partnership that will also address European security of supply concerns? At many times the worst of enemies, having fought...

This week's summits with China and Russia will demonstrate to EU leaders how healthy the centralised nation state still is. The demise of the centralised nation state – in...

The public-relations plan pursued by Alyaksandr Lukashenka will make Belarus's exclusion from the EU's Eastern Partnership seem minor.

The Eastern Partnership risks exacerbating rather than easing energy risks unless Russia is brought on board. The European Union's energy security has been severely tested...