EAST Center

The Eurasian States in Transition research center (EAST Center) is a think-tank focused on post-Soviet and east European studies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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Trust ratings of Russian politicians over the past decade

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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