On September 29, 2022, Cristian Istrate, Ambassador of Romania to the Russian Federation, and Liliana Burda, Counselor of the Romanian Embassy, visited Russian International Affairs Council
On September 29, 2022, Cristian Istrate, Ambassador of Romania to the Russian Federation, and Liliana Burda, Counselor ...
... that the region’s borders are not clearly fixed. Generally speaking, when discussing the situation in the region, politicians and experts tend to refer not only to the six countries that have a coastline on the Black Sea (Bulgaria, Georgia, Russia, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine) but also to neighbouring states. It is, thus, no coincidence that the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) founded 28 years ago (if we consider the Bosphorus Statement its constituent declaration) includes ...
... proved to be an impossible task because actual power in the country was concentrated in the hands of the oligarch Plahotniuc.
Ekaterina Chimiris:
Eastern Partnership Countries: Buffer Zone or Platform for Dialogue?
As for Moldova’s relations with Romania, the forecast proved equally correct in the sense that the two countries have failed to merge into a Greater Romania and are highly unlikely to do so in the foreseeable future. However, it could still happen in the long run. In recent years, Romania ...
Is it about Russia-Romania relations or about the poor status of current NATO-Russia relations?
Ruslan Mamedov, Olga Pylova:
On the Road to “Strategic Depth” in the Black Sea Region
On 11 April 2019, NATO confirmed US plans to deploy of the Terminal High Altitude ...
... Freedom — 2018
was held and involved Ukrainian troops. A few months prior, in July 2018, the joint Ukraine–US Navy exercise
Sea Breeze 2018
was held in the Black Sea. In 2018, Georgia, Ukraine, France, and the US
held
joint exercises controlled by Romania’s Navy. The press service of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet also
reports
about regular exercises: on January 29, 2019, a planned drill involved the ASW corvette
Kasimov
entering a combat training sea range to perform training missions.
bpg.gov....
On January 25, 2019, RIAC hosted a meeting with Vasile Soare, Romanian Ambassador to Russia, and Viorel Cojocaru, Deputy Head of Mission. The meeting focused on the issues of future interaction between RIAC and the Embassy in organizing and conducting a joint seminar on Russia-EU relations.
On January 25, 2019,...
... possibility of resolving the Transnistrian conflict through a multilateral compromise as Moldova deviating from the pro-EU vector and the country’s surrender to Russia. The flames of this alarmist position are also being fed from abroad, particularly from Romania.
In other words, inducing Chisinau to adopt a settlement plan for Transnistria that would grant Tiraspol any significant powers would be akin to making Kiev grant autonomy to Donbass. The situation is bound to worsen with the upcoming parliamentary ...
To What Extent Does the U.S. Aegis BMD in Europe Threaten Russia?
In May 2016, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency announced that its ballistic missile defence (BMD) base at Deveselu, Romania, had been put into operation. This marked the second phase of the European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) announced by Barack Obama in 2009. Immediately thereafter, construction of a similar base in Redzikowo, Poland began
as part of the third ...
... Transnistria conflict have some unique features.
First, the conflict between the unrecognized PMR and the Republic of Moldova arose without a pronounced ethnic component. The consolidation of the Transnistrian people occurred on an inter-ethnic and anti-Romanian basis. It developed in the absence of an ethnocratic leadership and an official declaration of “leading” ethnic groups, and maintained a state building approach
[3]
. The process of Romanianization on the right bank of the Dniester ...
The official opening of a ballistic missile defence base in Romania was among the top news stories last week news on the worsening Russia–America “partnership.”
To be precise, the Aegis Ashore Ballistic Missile Defence System was “certified” at the US Naval base in Deveselu on May ...