The turning back of the plane carrying the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin is being compared ironically with the U-turn made over the Atlantic by the plane of the former Russian prime minister Yevgeny Primakov. Primakov, one...
The breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria is not recognized by any country as an independent state. Even Russia, which is keeping the conflict in Moldova frozen, didn’t recognize Transnistria. The Moldovan government has no...
On 10 July at a briefing in the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center, the ATO spokesperson Col. Andriy Lysenko said that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detained Valery Gratov , a Colonel of Russian Airborne Troops who had been actively...
The indirect costs of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea as well as his military muscle-flexing elsewhere which include the isolation of Russia internationally and greater repression and human suffering...
“Two provocateurs” is how one of the most odious Kremlin “hawks,” Russia’s deputy prime minister and indisputable chauvinist Dmitry Rogozin, commented on the report by the Chisinau Institute for Public Policy...
In three verdicts published on 31 May 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) recognized Russia guilty for the actions of the authorities self-proclaimed Transnistria, a Russian proxy state in Moldova, the Ukrainian outlet...
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 2 May 2017, the Constitutional Court of Moldova delivered the judgment on the interpretation of an article of the country’s constitution on the permanent neutrality of Moldova, following a petition filed by the deputies of the...
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...
On 12 April 2017, the “Supreme Soviet” (parliament) of the “Transnistrian Moldovan Republic” (“PMR”) approved the second reading of the bill allowing the use of the Russian flag alongside so-called PMR...
Free independent media is a necessary condition for democracy to function in any country. Censorship, on the other hand, is rampant in all its forms in dictatorships. These definitions may be relevant in a black and white world; in...
