Natural Gas
May 28, 2010By Alexandru Eftode When Moldova's acting president, liberal Mihai Ghimpu, was recently asked by a reporter, "Who is going to pay Gazprom for the natural gas consumed by the Transdniester separatist region?" Ghimpu took a big pause before...
Kremlin, with Kyiv's help, ups pressure over Transdniester
May 20, 2010By Gregory Feifer After five years of bitter estrangement, Russia and Ukraine are taking part in what can only be described as a lovefest. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was in Kyiv on May 17, laughing over mutual words of admiration with Ukrainian...
Yanukovych defends Russian naval base extension
April 22, 2010Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has defended his decision to grant a 25-year lease extension to Russia's Black Sea Fleet base in Crimea. In return for the extension, Moscow reduced the price Ukraine pays for Russian natural gas by 30 percent in...
CEPA: Russian Strategy toward Central Europe
October 02, 2009By Jakub Grygiel, CEPA Summary Russia has never abandoned the desire to restore its influence over Central Europe – that belt of countries from the Baltic to the Black sea that has so often been the victim of Russian expansion in decades past...
Transnistria: A compromised "renovation" manoeuvre
June 30, 2009By Maxim Kuzovlev "There is no revenge in politics, but there are consequences instead". By P. Stolipin Members of the Transnistrian parliament who initiated amendments to the Constitution have withdrawn their draft law in late May 2009...