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Kosmolinks #6
As expected, the recently held elections in Kosovo did not solve anything and Dec.10 is coming closer. At the same time, we are witnessing the last attempts of the international community to get its act together. At least the EU should speak with one voice! Whatever the outcome, a good overview about Kosovo’s contested future [...]
Posted in Kosmolinks Also tagged DRM, Eastern Europe, Kosovo, links, politics, Putin, UN, Zotero 2 Comments
Rewriting history
What is happening at the moment? History (or better the interpretation of history) is more and more used to justify political actions. Nothing really new, but somehow two recent statements were not only shocking but also worrying: First, the Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski used weird historic justifications for his negotiations at the EU summit [...]
Posted in Eastern Europe, Humanities & Social Sciences Also tagged education, EU, Europe, History, Kaczynski, poland, Russian Politics 6 Comments
Transnistria’s internal power struggles
A quite interesting article on the internal power struggles in Transnistria called Sheriffs vs. Patriots (!) speculates about the underlying internal reasons for the recent plan on the settlement of the conflict in Transnistria. Insistent rumors are circulating in Transdniester that Igor Smirnov has fallen out with the Kremlin. Moscow has again refused to grant financial [...]
Posted in Eastern Europe Also tagged ENP, EU, European Neighbourhood, Moldova, politics, Russian Politics, Transnistria Leave a comment
Breakthrough in Transnistria?
Apparently a solution for the conflict around the breakaway region of Transnistria has been found. Vladimir Socor reports in the Eurasia Daily Monitor about the deal between Russia and Moldova and he highlights the anticipated consequences for the Moldovan constitution. The proposed settlement plan consists of three interrelated documents: The first document paves the way [...]
Posted in Eastern Europe Also tagged European Neighbourhood, Kremlin, Moldova, Russian Politics, Transnistria 8 Comments
ENP success in Belarus?
The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has been criticised of being ineffective, under-financed and rather limited in scope. But now it seems the slowish EU diplomacy delivers some promising results…ok, maybe no quite yet results but let’s call it a window of opportunity. The last European dictator, Belorussian President Alexander Lukashenka responded to the “non-paper – [...]
Russia: a ‘soft power’ running out of gas?
Recent news from Russia are not positive at all. Somehow it feels as if Russia is marching back to Soviet times. The list is long and truly worrying: Economically, the country is run by a handful of oligarchs. Energy is used as a political weapon with a little help of the dubious state controlled Gazprom. [...]
Posted in Eastern Europe, International Politics Also tagged Europe, ideology, Kremlin, political philosophy, political theory, politics, Russian Politics Leave a comment
Kosmolinks #7