Ukraine
Will Moldova be the next Ukraine?
July 30, 2010By Vlad Spanu Less than a year after the country's last elections, the Republic of Moldova finds itself at a crossroads once again. The "Twitter revolution" in Chisinau last April that made waves in the international media mirrored, somehow...
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...
Vladimir Putin, Moscow mayor and Patriarch Kirill promote Russian interests in Ukraine
July 29, 2010by Pavel Korduban Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, Moscow Mayor, Yury Luzhkov, and Patriarch Kirill flocked to Ukraine last week. While the official goals of the visits were different, each promoted the Kremlin’s ideology of a single Russian...
- July 27, 2010
By Taras Kuzio The description of Belarusian President, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, as “pro-Russian” has side-stepped the fact that he is a Soviet Belarusian nationalist which developed after 2002, when he rejected the then Russian President,...
July 22, 2010Parliament Speaker, acting President Mihai Ghimpu has asked the speakers attending the Geneva world conference of parliament speakers to support the unconditional, immediate and transparent withdrawal of foreign weaponry and ammunitions from Moldova....
Pre-Soviet past can become the basis of Belarusian national identity
July 21, 2010by Paul Goble In a week when Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich has argued that the Soviet period created the basis for Ukrainian statehood, a Moscow scholar suggests that Belarusians will remain divided by the Soviet inheritance but can be united...
Discussions on Transdniestria settlement held in Vienna
July 13, 2010A two-day meeting of participants in the "5+2" process for settlement of the Transdniestria conflict concluded last week . It was held in the presence of Ambassador Bolat Nurgaliyev, the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office...
Why the Russia spy story really matters
July 13, 2010By Gregory Feifer Invisible ink, instructions concealed in images posted on the Internet, a laptop in a Barnes & Noble flashing messages to a passing van: the high-tech spycraft used by the 10 now-confessed Russian intelligence agents arrested last...
Ukraine and USA to redouble Transnistria settlement efforts
July 07, 2010Ukraine and the United States shall redouble efforts aimed at Transnistrian conflict settlement through negotiations in the format of 5+2, says the joint statement they issued upon completion in Kiev of the second meeting of the Ukraine-U.S. Commission...
In the Transnistrian settlement process interests of both Chisinau and Tiraspol are important
July 02, 2010Infotag's interview with European Union Special Representative for Moldova Kalman Mizsei. I.: Mr. Mizsei, you have been the EU Special Representative to Moldova since March 2007. So, what could you say about the settlement of the conflict with Moldova...
