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The EU's trade policy towards Belarus and Russia has undergone a deep transformation in the past few years

A fundamental shift in EU's gas and oil import strategy

Pronounced demographic differences across post-Soviet countries: Total Fertility Rates & median ages as key indicators

A few telling examples of far-reaching, at times quite surprising, impacts that the Russo-Ukrainian war has generated across different world regions

Population change across post-Soviet countries over the past decade. Big regional differences

How EaP countries' economies have been doing since 2009: A big leap by Armenia, Georgia, and Moldova

Maduro was actively developing relations with three post-Soviet countries, including in 2025

Civilian casualties in Ukraine in 2002–2025. The year of 2025 was deadlier than the previous two years

Some food for thought: how compatiple Eastern Partnership countries' policies with the EU's, how press freedom looked in the past five years, and how their passport rankings changed over the past decade

Trust ratings of Russian politicians over the past decade

Five post-Soviet countries are seeing their sixth presidents in power since 1991

Quite ambivalent Russians' views of the war against Ukraine: growing support for peace talks meanwhile backing of military actions remains very high

This is how military expenditure of Belarus and the Baltic states changes over the past decade

This is how public opinion in Russia towards Western countries changed over the past two decades

Passport power index in post-Soviet countries: Georgia passport beats others

Interesting comparisons of Central Asian countries with regards to the freedom of the press & passport rankings in the past decade

A few snapshots of Central Asian countries' trade with key trading partners

Recent incursions of smuggling balloons into Lithuania's airspace contributed to the lowest number of functioning EU-Belarus border crossing points in decades

EU countries hosting the most Ukrainian war refugees in absolute numbers and per capita

The longest-serving USSR's and Russia's rulers, as of 2025