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: 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,...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe third round of talks on the Moldova-EU Association Agreement will be held in Chisinau on 7-8 June, Deputy Foreign and European...
Reading Time: 3 minutesContinuing violence in Kyrgyzstan, especially in the south, and Russian moves that some in Bishkek see as intended to discredit the Provisional Government...
Reading Time: 3 minutesFaced with mounting economic difficulties at home and increasing isolation abroad, Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka is transforming his country into “a North Korea...
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Thursday, Moldovan Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Issues Victor Osipov has commenced a 2-day round of consultations on the Transnistria problem with...