Eastern Europe
“Kosovo precedent” and the Ukrainian crisis?
The revolt and colored revolution by the Russian speaking population in the East Ukraine in 2014 finally resulted in separation of Crimea from Ukraine...
Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh: An unlikely and unwanted scenario
The April shootouts in Nagorno-Karabakh that took dozens of lives from each side signaled to the world community that the conflict around the above-mentioned...
Suicidal Nuclear Gambit on Caucasus
Nuclear security is seemingly in the vanguard of global attention, but the large framework of international provisions is increasingly perceived as a toothless tiger....
The 1915−1916 Armenian Metz Yeghern
On May 6th, 2016 appeared on Foreign Policy Journal’s website an article on the 1915−1916 Armenian Genocide (Metz Yeghern) in the Ottoman Empire written...
Kosovo Boomerang: Transcaucasian Separatism
Аt the very beginning of April 2016 the armed conflict between the Armenian and the Azerbaijani militaries was shortly renewed over the disputed territory...
Is Caucasus the next Syria – Don’t forget OSCE
The recent all-shoot out in Azerbaijan between the ethnic Armenians and Azerbaijani forces brought yet another round of casualties, psychological traumas and property destructions....
The Blame Game: Finding Fault in Greater Caspian Human Rights
A wonderfully informative, if also somewhat depressing, report has just come out from The Foreign Policy Centre, based in London, where the effort was...
Syrians Not Seeking, Syrians Not Welcome: Refugees and the Caspian Region
The primary point of interest here is why Syrians are fleeing their nation and where they are going. The primary reason they are fleeing...
Blowback Diplomacy: How the US was Locked Out of the Caspian
It has been almost one year since the IV Caspian Summit in Astrakhan, Russia, where the presidents of the five Caspian states signed a...
Leaving the Euronest: Why Azerbaijan is Unhappy
The European Union may have found itself deeper into a conflict than it had originally planned when it invited both Armenia and Azerbaijan into...