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Biden Urges Central Europe To Help Guide Fledgling Democracies
October 23, 2009It was the key speech of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's tour to three Central and Eastern European countries this week. Speaking at the University of Bucharest’s Central Library, which was heavily damaged by fire during Romania's anticommunist...
Turkish-Armenian détente: A plus for regional stability
October 14, 2009By Ian O. Lesser On Saturday, the Foreign Ministers of Turkey and Armenia met in Zurich and signed accords aimed at establishing diplomatic relations and opening their closed border. They also agreed to a series of consultations and confidence-building...
Moscow Reprises Another Tactic against Ukraine
October 08, 2009By Paul Goble Over the last decade, the Commonwealth of Independent States has been reduced to little more than a club of presidents of the 11 and now, after Georgia’s withdrawal, 11 former Soviet republics. But so few presidents are slated...
Moldova: Russian peacekeepers, big loans and the need for reforms
October 08, 2009By Louis O'Neill Moldova hosts the Summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States this week and hopes to have a better turnout than President Medvedev did in July, at the annual "summit-at-the-races". Back then, only five CIS leaders made...
What if the CIS holds a Summit, and no one comes?
October 07, 2009By Robert Coalson There is none of the extraordinary street-cleaning or painting of dingy facades going on in the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, that one might expect as the city prepares to host a summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS...
Louis O'Neill: Moldova's Near Miss With Nepotism
October 05, 2009By Louis O'Neill Every leader wants to be surrounded by people he can trust. And who, after all, is generally more trustworthy and loyal than family? Upon assuming the presidency of the United States in 1961, John F. Kennedy looked to have his campaign...
Stalin Planned to Annex Parts of Iran, Turkey and China
August 31, 2009By Paul Goble Stalin viewed the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which allowed Moscow to seize the Baltic countries, Bessarabia, and part of Poland as “a model” for the subsequent annexation of portions of Iran, Turkey and...
Moldova defies post-Soviet traditions
August 08, 2009By Nicu Popescu Revolutions, staged successions and consolidated authoritarianism replaced “elections” in practically all the post-Soviet countries. Against such a background the best news from Moldova’s recent elections is the lack...
'Scent of War' Spreads Across CIS
June 30, 2009By Paul Goble Nearly a year after the Russian Federation violated the longstanding assumption that no post-Soviet state would use military force against another, “the scent of war” is spreading across the Commonwealth of Independent States...
Next Sitting of CIS Economic Council to be Held in Chisinau
June 18, 2009On Friday the CIS Economic Council will carry out its 47th sitting in the Moldovan capital city – Chisinau. In 2009 Moldova presides in the Commonwealth of Independent States. According to the press service of the Ministry of Economy and Trade...