Abkhazia
Russia blocks consensus on the frozen conflicts at OSCE’s year-end conference
December 12, 2011By Vladimir Socor/ Jamestown Foundation/ Munich -- On December 6-7 in Vilnius, the OSCE’s year-end ministerial conference dramatized this organization’s vulnerability to sabotage by the Kremlin. That vulnerability is inherent in the OSCE&rsquo...
Abkhazia President Sergei Bagapsh dies at 62
May 29, 2011Sergei Bagapsh, president of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, has died aged 62, Abkhaz officials say. They say he passed away in a Moscow hospital from complications following recent lung surgery. Mr Bagapsh won his second five-year term in ...
Lithuanian chairmanship tackles protracted conflicts in the OSCE
February 02, 2011Lithuanian Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Audronius Azubalis, outlined the chairmanship’s priorities in the Permanent Council’s September 13 and subsequent meetings, as well as statements and introductory visits by his special...
January 06, 2011By Vlad Spânu / Washington, DC / Moldova.ORG/ -- Moldovan politicians are competing in calls for the automatic extension of the Russian Federation-Republic of Moldova treaty that is a legal framework for strategic partnership between the two countries...
All in all, S-300 is just another brick in the wall
December 07, 2010By Khatuna Mshvidobadze The installation of the S-300 air defense system in the Russian-occupied Georgian region of Abkhazia, although described by Moscow as necessary for territorial defense, is aimed at cementing Russian dominance over the South...
Russia vows support for breakaway Georgian territories
August 08, 2010Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has pledged to develop broad economic and security ties with Abkhazia, one of two breakaway Georgian territories recognized by Moscow as independent countries. Mr. Medvedev spoke Sunday in the Abkhaz city of Sukhumi...
July 28, 2010By Vladimir Kara-Murza Behind the façade of a half-hearted objection to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on the “independence” of Kosovo, Moscow was quietly celebrating. On July 22, by a vote of ten to four, the world...
Clinton in Georgia: Precious few deliverables
July 07, 2010by Vladimir Socor US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, paid a six-hour visit to Georgia on July 5, as part of a tour of five countries in five days. Her Georgia visit was the first by a top US official since Vice-President, Joseph Biden, visited exactly...
Are more border changes ahead in Eurasia?
May 21, 2010By Paul Goble Since 1991, the post-Soviet governments and the international community have been adamant against any change in the borders in Eurasia, and many expressed concerns that one of the results of Moscow’s decision to recognize...
Moscow uses Victory Day to promote its post-Soviet dominance
May 14, 2010By Pavel Felgenhauer Propaganda overwhelms Russian society In Soviet times grandiose displays of military might during parades on Red Square in the center of Moscow were mostly designed to impress western Cold War adversaries. The last Soviet military...