Paul Pryce
EGF Affiliated Expert on Conflict Management and the OSCE Institutions

Since the outbreak of initial hostilities in November 1990, the Transnistrian conflict persists. While numerous initiatives have been proposed over the past two decades both by external actors and by the parties to the conflict, the de jure Moldovan government and the de facto Transnistrian authorities, little progress has been made to secure a more lasting peace. Click here to read more.

• October 17, 2012

Foreign bases in the Central Asian countries are likely to stay in spite of the statements of the countries' leaders, the U.S. expert on Central Asia Bruce Pannier believes.

• October 13, 2012

The two countries have given starkly different accounts about what was aboard a chartered Syrian Airlines jetliner that was forced by Turkish fighter jets to land in Istanbul Wednesday night, interrupting a flight from Moscow to Damascus. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey accused Russia Thursday of exporting munitions to Syria on the aircraft, while Turkish media reported that part of the cargo was “missile parts.”

• October 13, 2012

Iraq has agreed to buy more than $4.2 billion in Russian arms, in the largest military and technical cooperation deal between Russia and Iraq in the modern era.

• October 13, 2012

A meeting was held between Secretary of State - Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Grigory Karasin and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, Philip Gordon in Geneva. The meeting, which discussed a number of issues of mutual interest, was held on Oct.11, Russian Foreign Ministry's official website reported.

• October 12, 2012

In meeting with Knesset Speaker Rivlin, Sergei Lavrov says Tehran will avoid such an assault as a result of millions of 'Arabs and Muslims' who reside in the country; Rivlin: Only Russia can stop Iran without sanctions, military action.

• October 11, 2012

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned on Wednesday that the use of force against Tehran would spell the end of the negotiating process on Iran’s nuclear program.

• October 10, 2012

Russia extended its military presence in Tajikistan for 30 years on Friday in a deal to secure the southern fringes of its former Soviet empire after NATO troops leave Afghanistan.

• October 5, 2012