After a media boomlet suggesting Mikhail Babich, the recently recalled Russian ambassador to Minsk, would replace Vladislav Surkov as the Kremlin’s point man on the Donbas, Abkhazia and South Ossetia (charter97.org and iarex.ru), sources...
Read also: Georgia’s lessons of peacebuilding now instructive for Ukrainians Never-ending Geneva These days ten years ago, the Russo-Georgian war began. While dabs in the contemporary Georgian history remind that Georgians were...
Given that Vladimir Putin very much hopes to get a new political boost like the one he received following the Crimean Anschluss, there is “a high degree of probability” that he will seek to incorporate into the Russian Federation a...
Even people who accept that the North Caucasus is a Russian colony often argue that the republics of that region would be incapable of living on their own. But Avraam Shmulyevich says that history shows they could and that both they and...
It is restless again on the Russian Federation’s (RF) southern border. This unrest should not be a surprise for the readers of my articles, considering the articles on the march of Islamic extremism and its pursuit of a (virtual)...
I met Julia in 2016, when being a volunteer in the summer peace camp for Ukrainian kids who either came from the frontline areas of Donbas or had been internally displaced persons. In this camp, the participants not only relaxed but also...
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in...
The frozen conflicts Russia controls in the territory of the neighboring states are: Transnistrian conflict in Moldova (also known as Transdniester conflict) Abkhazian conflict in Georgia South Ossetian conflict in Georgia Annexation of...
On February 18, President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed a decree on recognition of “passports” issued by so-called DNR and LNR in Russia. So-called Luhansk people’s republic adopted the Russian ruble as its basic monetary unit on 1...
Unlike occupied Crimea, Russia has not annexed Abkhazia. Just like in Ukrainian Donbas, the idea of separatism was promoted there with the help of the Russian military. Officially Russia distances itself from ruling the region, but in...
When Ukrainian prosecutors released audio intercepts that appeared to show the direct involvement of Kremlin top advisor Sergey Glazyev in Russia’s takeover of Crimea and pro-separatist rallies in eastern Ukraine in August 2016, they...
