A steep decline from one of the biggest spenders after several bumpy years in global politics.

Being the largest country by land area helps keep Russia one of the world’s big breadbowl economies.

Russia has abundant natural resources, but is also highly dependent on them.

On a per capita basis, Russia trails only neighboring Belarus in cigarette consumption.

Russia is home to a million more immigrants than its large emigrant diaspora.

Only the United States sells more arms than Russia.

France and Germany will be very flexible in their response to Italian demands, irrespective of the official rhetoric from Berlin and Paris.

Donald Trump’s foreign policy of humiliation is liable to have dire consequences, not least for the interests of the U.S. itself.

The United States’ greatest failing is the inability to fashion a strategic conception that accommodates the rise of China as a superpower.

Turkey’s President views the Balkan countries as easy prey. A close-up look at Albania’s future path.