Nagorno-Karabakh
Unrecognized states more like the flu than like cancer, Malashenko says
February 24, 2011Unrecognized states reflect the continuing tension between the principles of self-determination and of the territorial integrity of existing states, but their appearance is “more like ‘the flu’ than like ‘cancer’&rdquo...
Armenia says will recognize Karabakh in case of war
December 13, 2010Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian says his country will recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as independent if Azerbaijan uses force to resolve their dispute over the region. The dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh has escalated in recent years, with Azerbaijan...
Religious leaders from Armenia and Azerbaijan call for peace in Karabakh
April 26, 2010By Kristin Deasy The call came as the head of Armenia's Apostolic Church made his first-ever visit to Azerbaijan today Religious leaders from Armenia and Azerbaijan have called for a peaceful resolution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, during a landmark...
Karabakh official pleads for arrested Moldovan journalist
April 22, 2010A senior Nagorno-Karabakh official said he has asked authorities in Moldova's breakaway Transdniester region to improve conditions for a local Armenian-born journalist detained there, RFE/RL's Armenian and Moldovan services report. Ernest Vardanean,...
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...
Karabakh conflict: Armenia, Azerbaijan agree on 'Madrid Principles
January 26, 2010Meeting in Sochi on January 25 with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Serzh Sarkisian and Ilham Aliyev, reached verbal agreement on the wording of the preamble of the most recent revised version of the "...
Turkey-Armenia rapprochement: One step forward, two steps back
December 28, 2009By David J. Smith With considerable ado, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu met in Zurich October 10 to sign an agreement that would establish diplomatic relations and re-open the border between...
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...