South Ossetia

The head of a separatist region, South Ossetia, announced it wants to join Russia amid the conflict in Ukraine. Anatoly Bibilov, the president of the region, which is within the ...

On the face of it, the conflict in Ukraine seems to have stabilized somewhat...

Georgia has sought to bolster its prospects for national survival by vigorously campaigning for NATO membership. But placating ...

Inhabiting the crossroads of western Asia and eastern Europe, Georgians have lived a complex and often painful history...

Stratfor Managing Editor Ben Sheen and Eurasia Analyst Eugene Chausovsky discuss the increasing tensions in Russia's periphery since ...

Georgia’s response to the Ukraine crisis has been less strident than some of Russia’s other neighbours. In part ...

After days of heightening tensions and increasingly aggressive rhetoric, Russian president Vladimir Putin requested, and was promptly granted, ...

Crimea: the struggle within Ukraine, between Ukraine and Russia, and between Russia and the West, raises the key ...