Vladimir Putin’s bet on aggressive chauvinism and revanchism consolidates the West and unnerves satellites. More and more Russians begin to doubt it as well

What Russia’s frontiers could look like in case of fragmentation triggered by ethnic, religious, economic and other factors

With Europe hungry for Chinese goods, and China eager to sell them, high speed railways get large investments to complete the missing links between the two markets. Kazakhstan now sees a historic opportunity to make itself the main stopping place on tomorrow's Iron Silk Road

The Customs Union is causing major economic problems not only for its “minority” members, Kazakhstan and Belarus, but even for the major stakeholder - Russia

President Nursultan Nazarbayev called a snap parliamentary election to show to the entire world and his subordinates that the country is moving from authoritarianism to democracy