CIS
Poll shows Moldovans losing interest in EU, warming up to Russia
November 18, 2011RFE/RL/ Chisinau -- A new poll shows Moldovans are losing interest in the post-Soviet country's European integration and are warming up to the idea of joining a Commonwealth of Independent States' (CIS) free-trade zone led by Russia, RFE/RL's Moldovan...
Like Moldova, Ukraine wants both ways - free trade agreement with EU and CIS
November 03, 2011By Pavel Korduban/ Eurasia Daily Monitor/ Washington, DC -- Ukraine has signed a free trade agreement with the CIS and completed its free trade talks with the EU. Unlike membership of the Customs Union (Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan), which Moscow keeps...
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...
Moldovan premier participates in summit of CIS heads of government
November 23, 2010Prime Minister Vlad Filat today participated in the summit of the heads of government from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the government's communications and press relations department has said. The event took place at the headquarters...
The costs of the “hammer-lessons”
August 30, 2010By Andrei Munteanu After 19 years of independence, the Republic of Moldova seems like being in the same state of tension, interminable pressures both external and internal, with huge problems of slightly different nature. There have been some...
Romania and Russia, rivals just like in 1942
August 22, 2010by Ana-Maria Spînu Analyzing the Romanian diplomatist's arrest, accused of attempt to obtain secret military information from a Russian citizen, the online publication Forum.msk evokes a similar case that happened in 2009. At that time, a Bulgarian...
Moscow wrong to write off western Ukraine as inevitably anti-Russian
July 30, 2010By Paul Goble Russian officials are making a costly and two-fold mistake in viewing Ukraine as a country permanently divided between a virulently nationalistic and Russophobic West and a Russian-speaking and pro-Moscow East, according to a senior...
CIS a success at managing transition to independence of Post-Soviet states
June 24, 2010by Paul Goble Many commentators have thought that the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was intended to promote the integration of the former Soviet republics into a new whole perhaps like the European Union, given the frequent invocation of that...
Moldovan acting president satisfied with recent CIS summit in Moscow
May 11, 2010The Moldovan acting president and parliament speaker, Mihai Ghimpu, has expressed satisfaction with his participation in the informal summit of the CIS heads of state held in Moscow on 8 May. He told journalists that "the summit was held successfully...
The Kremlin advances its vision for a “sphere of privileged interests” in Eurasia
April 27, 2010By Stephen Blank Russia’s strategic gains at Ukraine’s and Europe’s expense Russia’s new deal with Ukraine on the Black Sea Fleet (BSF) and gas prices has profound bilateral significance, as well as for the CIS and even Europe...