Abkhazia
Presiden Yanukovich's dubious deal
April 30, 2010By Michael Emerson The newly, democratically elected President Yanukovich of Ukraine has got off to a spectacularly fast but equally dubious start. First on his diplomacy. His first supposedly symbolic act of foreign policy was to fly to Brussels first...
Ukrainian parliamentarian: Transnistria is a hook that keeps Moldova on the line
April 09, 2010Sergei Grinevetsky, deputy of the Ukrainian Supreme Rada: Ukraine should build maximum-possible pragmatic relations with Moldova Upon the coming of a new president, Ukraine has received a possibility of building relations with the Republic of Moldova...
Circassians in North Caucasus hail Georgia’s move on recognizing genocide
April 05, 2010By Valery Dzutsev Circassian genocide issue gains more publicity and support in the Northwest Caucasus The main reaction of Circassians living in their historical homeland in the North Caucasus to the seminal conference on the Circassian genocide...
Yanukovych’s election opens up Crimean separatist threat
March 02, 2010By Taras Kuzio Viktor Yanukovych’s inauguration as Ukrainian president on February 25 forced him to face the fact that the Party of Regions that he leads, has re-opened the Pandora’s Box of Crimean separatism. National Institute of Strategic...
Russian analyst: International community not bound to support territorial integrity of states
February 24, 2010By Paul Goble Valery Tishkov, an influential Moscow specialist on ethnicity and politics, says in an interview posted online yesterday that every government must seek to defend its country’s territorial integrity because, in the wake of what...
AP: Russian troops to stay in Moldova breakaway region
February 18, 2010By Corneliu Rusnac, AP The leader of a separatist region in Moldova said Moscow has given him assurances that Russian troops will stay in the region until a final solution is reached in an 20-year-old dispute in the former Soviet republic. Trans-Dniester...
Adviser to Russian speaker calls for recognition of Moldova's breakaway region
February 18, 2010A statement that could cause a new large international scandal - in his blog today, an adviser to the chairman of the Federation Council of Russia, Aleksandr Chuyev, expressed the opinion that it is time for Russia to recognize the independence of the...
Conflict zones in Georgia and Moldova - springboard for Russia's intelligence activities
February 05, 2010Conflict Zones such as Transnistrian or occupied regions of Georgia are indispensable for the security services of Russia as a springboard for conducting intelligence activities and for implementation of various special operations, including subversive...
Georgia unveils strategy to regain control of Abkhazia and South Ossetia
January 28, 2010Georgia Unveils 'Strategy On Occupied Territories' The Georgian government made public on January 28 its strategy with regard to regaining control over the breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Like successive draft peace proposals that...
Stricter Russian conditions blocking negotiations on Transnistria
January 26, 2010By Vladimir Socor Transnistria Remains the Only Really “Frozen” Conflict In 2008, Russia “unfroze” the conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia through outright war and occupation of these Georgian territories. In the latter...