South Ossetia
Russia blocks consensus on the frozen conflicts at OSCE’s year-end conference
December 12, 2011By Vladimir Socor/ Jamestown Foundation/ Munich -- On December 6-7 in Vilnius, the OSCE’s year-end ministerial conference dramatized this organization’s vulnerability to sabotage by the Kremlin. That vulnerability is inherent in the OSCE&rsquo...
Lithuanian chairmanship tackles protracted conflicts in the OSCE
February 02, 2011Lithuanian Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Audronius Azubalis, outlined the chairmanship’s priorities in the Permanent Council’s September 13 and subsequent meetings, as well as statements and introductory visits by his special...
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...
Russia vows support for breakaway Georgian territories
August 08, 2010Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has pledged to develop broad economic and security ties with Abkhazia, one of two breakaway Georgian territories recognized by Moscow as independent countries. Mr. Medvedev spoke Sunday in the Abkhaz city of Sukhumi...
July 28, 2010By Vladimir Kara-Murza Behind the façade of a half-hearted objection to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on the “independence” of Kosovo, Moscow was quietly celebrating. On July 22, by a vote of ten to four, the world...
July 23, 2010by David J. Smith The Paris Court of Commerce last week handed a victory to the Russian propaganda machine, allowing French satellite operator Eutelsat—one quarter French Government-owned—to bar Tbilisi-based First Caucasus Television from...
Tiraspol's chief political objective is international recognition of PMR
July 19, 2010The chief objective and main priority of Transnistria's foreign policy is to achieve the recognition of the Transnistrian state by the world community, the region's minister of foreign affairs Vladimir Yastrebchak stated at a briefing here. He voiced...
Joint EU-Russian crisis management in Europe? Interesting idea…
June 14, 2010by Alina Inayeh On June 5, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev signed a brief but significant memorandum on a joint EU-Russia Committee on Security and Foreign Policy (ERPSC) in the German town of Meseberg. The document...
Are more border changes ahead in Eurasia?
May 21, 2010By Paul Goble Since 1991, the post-Soviet governments and the international community have been adamant against any change in the borders in Eurasia, and many expressed concerns that one of the results of Moscow’s decision to recognize...
Moscow not ready to risk absorbing Georgia's South Ossetia
May 19, 2010By Paul Goble Despite calls by the president of North Ossetia for uniting his republic with South Ossetia within in the Russian Federation, Moscow is not yet ready to take that step lest it trigger a new round of instability in the North Caucasus and...