Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia have summoned Chinese envoys in their countries to explain recent comments by Beijing's ambassador to France that questioned the sovereignty of former Soviet states amid ...

Pop quiz: Russian troops have been operating in how many former Soviet republics so far this year? The answer requires an extended journey from Eastern Europe to Central Asia. The obvious starting ...

The legacy of the Soviet Union's collapse plays a greater role in the foreign policies of Georgia and Ukraine than previous studies have suggested. Conducting foreign policy in former Soviet countries ...

BEIJING — The Chinese government said Monday that it respects the sovereignty of former Soviet republics after Beijing’s ambassador to France caused an uproar in Europe by saying they weren’t ...

European countries are demanding answers from Beijing after its top diplomat in Paris questioned the sovereignty of former Soviet republics, in comments that could undermine China’s efforts to be seen ...

In an interview with Swiss journalist Darius Rochebin, Chinese ambassador to France Lu Shaye said that former Soviet countries "have no effective status in international law." “In international law, ...

The Kremlin’s all-out war on Ukraine is having massive consequences for not only the country itself but also other post-Soviet states. These states, which have experienced an unprecedented influx of ...

Lu Shaye, China's ambassador to France, told French media on Friday that countries formerly part of the Soviet Union lacked status in international law. The comment sparked criticism in several ...

The author is a retired economist who from 1992 to 2003 headed the IMF team responsible for the former Soviet republics. The book moves smoothly from government offices in the former Communist Party ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died in Moscow, on Tuesday, at the age of ninety-one. In the last two decades of his life, he rarely granted interviews. So, in 2010, when he ...