Moldovan Defense Minister Eugen Sturza says that Russian forces, without identifying markers, have carried out massive maneuvers involving “the forcing of the Dniestr River, a move that disqualifies Moscow as a peacekeeper in his country...
Whenever the connection of Russian military personnel to events in Transnistria, the separatist-controlled territory of Moldova, or in the occupied territories of Ukraine’s Donbas, come up, Russia is quick to deny they were there at all....
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...
The three-month campaign leading up to the spring presidential elections officially started on 31 December 2018. According to current polls, no single candidate stands out. Among leading candidates, however, most can be classified as...
