Russia

In this op-ed for commonspace.eu Dennis Sammut argues that the first phase of the Ukraine crisis is now over. In the second phase the west must buy time for Ukraine. It must also re-invent its relations with Russia.

The Ukrainian Crisis has already exposed problems in the international system, but for the Commonwealth of Independent States it poses fundamental existential questions.

As Kerry and Lavrov prepare to meet in London in a last minute effort to resolve the crisis over Ukraine, Russia continues with large scale military exercisis on Ukraine's borders.

Far from altruistic reasons have kept Russia, France and the US working together in the Minsk Process format for two decades. Can this process survive the Ukraine crisis?

The Ministerial Council of the OSCE starts tomorrow in Kiev. It marks the end of Ukraine's uninspiring leadership of the organisation over the last year. Big challenges face the organisation in the coming two years.

Turkish jets intercepted the plane off the port city of Ordu on the Black Sea coast and monitored its flight from the Georgian border in the east through to the Bulgarian border

Five years have passed since Georgia and Russia fought a short but costly war that again brought suffering and death on a huge scale to the Caucasus. Lessons need to be learnt and the world and the people of the region together must say "Never again", and must with their actions and their will avoid the spiral that leads to war. Commonspace.eu summarises the conflict and its background in ten short questions and answers as an introduction to a series of articles, interviews and special reports which we will be publishing over the next few days

"Something has to change that will shuffle all the certainties and create a new basis for negotiations".

ArmInfo’s Interview with Ashot Manucharyan, member of the Karabakh Committee, national security advisor to the first President of Armenia