Transnistria

May 9, 2024 | Ivana Stradner |

U.S. Must Stop Putin

After months of delay, U.S. aid is again flowing to Ukraine. Yet the war’s trajectory remains uncertain. Russia is determined to win a protracted conflict, while Washington’s appetite for further aid...

February 29, 2024 | Ivana Stradner, Jason Jay Smart

Putin proving his ambitions don’t stop at Ukraine

The day before Vladimir Putin’s long yearly address to parliament Thursday, politicians from Transnistria, a pro-Kremlin breakaway region of Moldova, asked the Russian president to “protect”...

August 23, 2023 | Ivana Stradner, Jason Jay Smart

Is Russia Now Weaponizing Music?

Russia has resorted to a wide range of tactics to keep nations within its orbit. Now it’s taken to using music to win over foreign public support.

June 21, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Putin’s to-do list

What would happen if he were to prevail in Ukraine?

May 6, 2023 | Ivana Stradner |

Moscow Proxies Stand for Regional Election in Moldova

Russian efforts to increase its influence within Moldova may take another step forward in a forthcoming regional election.

April 9, 2023 | Ivana Stradner, Natia Seskuria

Putin’s hybrid warfare diverts Western attention and resources from Ukraine

If America wants to end the Ukraine war, the first step is to see the conflict through the Kremlin’s eyes. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s tanks and jets might not be powerful, but his hybrid-warfare...

March 20, 2023 | Peter Doran, Ivana Stradner

Washington ignores Putin’s designs on Moldova at its peril

One of Europe’s most modest countries is becoming a major center of conflict. Russia is targeting the small-but-strategic lands of Moldova as the next big front in its war on Ukraine. While Washington...

November 2, 2022 | Ryan Brobst, Bradley Bowman

How to get Kyiv the Tanks and Armored Vehicles It Needs

“We’re fighting the war out of our pickup trucks,” stated a Ukrainian soldier when reflecting on Ukraine’s slowing counteroffensive in Luhansk region. While Ukraine has a large inventory of tanks...

August 5, 2022 | Ivana Stradner, Natia Seskuria

It’s Not Just Ukraine

How Putin is trying to destabilize the rest of Europe by meddling in Moldova, Georgia, and Bosnia.

April 22, 2022 | Dr. Brenda Shaffer |

Energy in Conflict: The Case of the 2020 Armenia-Azerbaijan War

Excerpt With the rise in frequency of hybrid warfare, combatants in various conflicts are increasingly targeting domestic energy infrastructure and energy supply flows.1 In conventional warfare, militaries...

July 22, 2020 | Dr. Brenda Shaffer, Jonathan Schanzer

Amazon Pays a Fine for Crimea Business, but Occupied-Territories Policy Remains Murky

Amazon.com, Inc., settled with the U.S. Department of the Treasury earlier this month for violating U.S. sanctions by delivering products to Crimea, a region of Ukraine under Russian occupation, and several...

February 27, 2020 | Svante Cornell, Dr. Brenda Shaffer

The United States Needs to Declare War on Proxies

The most important takeaway from the killing of Qassem Suleimani doesn’t just have to do with Iran.

January 29, 2020 | |

New FDD Report Explores Policies Toward Occupied and Disputed Territories

“Occupied Elsewhere: Selective Policies on Occupations, Protracted Conflicts, and Territorial Disputes”

November 29, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir, John Lechner

Erdoğan’s Interests Converge with Putin in Moldova’s Gagauzia

BACKGROUND: On October 17, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan touched down in Chisinau for a ...

August 8, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir |

How Russia Plans to Get Turkey on Its Side

June has been a tough month for the board of Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), the joint Turco-Russian megaproject and Turkey&rs...