Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is due to arrive in Bucharest for a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council, had threatened to skip the summit if MAPs were offered to Georgia and Ukraine.

Granting MAPs to the two countries would be the beginning of the process. The question is not, as some have said, whether Ukraine and Georgia are ready for NATO. The question is whether NATO is ...

Kyiv hoped to receive a MAP, which would serve as a roadmap to joining the alliance, at the Bucharest Summit in 2008. However ...

If you're from Ukraine and Georgia, you say, "Hey, wait a minute: Finland has just joined without a MAP and has sort of bumped up into the front of the queue, in front of us." Finland is the first ...

This includes extensive reporting from the Baltic, Nordic, and Central European regions, plus Georgia and Ukraine ... according to the latest battlefield maps published by the Institute for ...

What comparisons have been drawn to Ukraine in 2014? Analysts have noted similarities between the situation in Georgia and Ukraine – both former Soviet republics which have found themselves ...

Sadly for the world, that gambit worked: Most NATO members took a decisive step back from political support of the accession process for Georgia and Ukraine. Ukraine is taking back land that ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest USSR news every morning. Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, on Wednesday pulled back from the country’s goal of ...

Before the war started, both Russia and Ukraine were considered international surrogacy hubs. Georgia has since become the country where parents go looking for surrogates abroad. In the US ...