Reading Time: 3 minutesAleksandr Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s FSB, and Valery Khoroshkovsky, head of Ukraine’s SBU, have signed a five-year agreement that will allow Moscow...
Reading Time: 2 minutesSince 1991, the post-Soviet governments and the international community have been adamant against any change in the borders in Eurasia, and many expressed...
Reading Time: 3 minutesRussian President, Dmitry Medvedev, met with his Ukrainian counterpart, Viktor Yanukovych, for the seventh time this year, in Kyiv on May 17-18, but...
Reading Time: 3 minutesOpening, alongside Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, the Interstate Commission’s session, Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, turned the clock back to 1990. Invoking that year’s...
Reading Time: 3 minutesRussian President, Dmitry Medvedev’s, May 17-18 visit to Kyiv capped a ten-week campaign to lay the basis for “reintegrating” Ukraine with Russia. It...
Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter five years of bitter estrangement, Russia and Ukraine are taking part in what can only be described as a lovefest.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMoldovan Economy Minister Valeriu Lazar has rejected media speculation that the Russian energy giant Gazprom is trying to take over Moldovagaz, the...
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Russian authorities are seeking a major détente with the West. A draft of a revised foreign policy doctrine was leaked and extracts...
Reading Time: 3 minutesMedvedev and Yanukovych shun OSCE to proclaim role as guarantors of security for Moldova and Transnistria
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn yet another bid to strengthen cooperation with the “near abroad,” Moscow has hosted informal summit meetings of the major post-Soviet groupings. However,...