Recent Terrorist Attacks in Transnistria Hint at the Opening of Another Anti-Russian Front

Recent Terrorist Attacks in Transnistria Hint at the Opening of Another Anti-Russian Front

The larger trend is that the US-led West might have concluded that Europe’s geopolitical map is once again irreversibly being changed as a result of the events that they provoked in Ukraine from 2014 onward (i.e. Crimea’s reunification with Russia, Moscow’s recognition of the Donbass Republics’ independence, potential similar such separatist referendums across Southern Ukraine)…

Claims that Neighboring Countries Want to Divide Ukraine Are to Justify Minorities Persecution

Claims that Neighboring Countries Want to Divide Ukraine Are to Justify Minorities Persecution

Maxim Buzhansky, a Member of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament), said that several European countries have territorial claims against Ukraine. In his opinion, revanchist sentiments come from Poland, Romania and Hungary. Buzhansky emphasized that Kiev’s weakness plays into the other three countries hands and provides an opportunity to revise the history of the region. “These…

Moldova’s Manufactured Energy Crisis Serves Several Strategic Purposes

Moldova’s Manufactured Energy Crisis Serves Several Strategic Purposes

America might very well be weaponizing the issue at this particular time in order to pressure Russia on other fronts such as Ukraine and Syria. Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov claimed that “Moldova is provoking [its energy crisis] with its own hands” after it refused to acknowledge its debt to the Russian gas company and thus…

Russian-Moldovan Relations Might Become Much More Difficult to Manage

Russian-Moldovan Relations Might Become Much More Difficult to Manage

Pro-Western Maia Sandu’s victory in the second round of the Moldovan presidential elections last week might make bilateral relations with Russia much more difficult to manage than they were under her Russian-friendly predecessor, with the worst-case scenario being a new East-West crisis in the event that Moldova attempts to (re)unify with Romania and/or militarily resolve…

Nationalism, Ideology and the Formation of the Nation-States Among the Yugoslavs

Nationalism, Ideology and the Formation of the Nation-States Among the Yugoslavs

There are many talks about nationalism among the peoples from the former Yugoslavia during the last three decades what is quite understandable taking into consideration the post-Cold War conflicts and atrocities, as a continuation of WWII crimes based on certain political ideologies,[i] committed on the territory of ex-Yugoslavia. Historia est magistra vitae I want to…