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 ...

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 ...

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

Those in that second camp have a genuine gripe against Putin’s regime pertaining to its propogation of “frozen conflicts” in former Soviet territories. As its name suggests, frozen conflicts are armed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

When U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would formally recognize the Golan Heights as part of Israel, most of the rest of the world rejected the move. But he found an ally in the de ...

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 ...

Armenia and Azerbaijan have announced a truce after three days of fierce fighting in the secessionist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, but the flare-up is proof that the post-Soviet frozen conflicts are ...