Post-Soviet 'frozen conflicts' heat up as big-power interests collide Tensions are growing as NATO and a resurgent Russia divide over future of breakaway statelets. AP ...

Likewise, conflicts in the Georgian regions of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Ajara have crippled Georgia's post-Soviet development. The same is true of Moldova's Transdniester region and Russia's ...

Azerbaijan and Russia are locked in an escalating diplomatic standoff that has underscored Moscow's weakening supremacy in ...

In Georgia and Moldova, for example, Russia deployed its peacekeeping forces when armed conflicts emerged there after the Soviet collapse. It did so largely to maintain its influence in these ...

The intensification of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh has brought attention to other unfinished conflicts in post-Soviet countries. Are there likely to be further ...

Each situation is complex and evolving, as are the goals and relationships of outside players. The goal probably should be to foster some kind of resolution ...

Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine and the emergence of pro-Moscow separatist territories in eastern Ukraine have created a new set of conflicts, and the U.S. response ...

Russia’s Attempts to Leverage Power Over Post-Soviet States. By keeping these conflicts ongoing, the Kremlin has deterred Western integration and leveraged its power over individual post-Soviet ...

In particular, it likely will create new divisions and conflicts within those post-Soviet states seeking to remain neutral in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Sign up.

In the fall of 1990, in the dying days of the Soviet Union, fighting broke out in the breakaway republic of Transnistria between Russian-backed separatists and forces loyal to the Moldavian Soviet ...

Ethnicity and 21st Century Post-Soviet Conflicts. Russia’s relatively successful efforts to foment patriotism among its multiethnic population and reforge a powerful, ...

When Moldovan filmmaker Ion Borş was growing up in Chisinau, the capital of the former Soviet republic, he heard stories about the conflict from his father, a veteran of Transnistria.