#Blog Posts

      Who beat Real Madrid? On the 28th of September 2021, the reigning Moldovan football champion Sheriff Tiraspol won their away match at Real Madrid in their first-ever Champions League season. Undoubtedly, this was a historic result and …

      On September 4th 2020, Kosovan and Serbian representatives signed the Economic Normalization Agreements, often referred to as the ‘Washington Agreements’, under the custody of the then-United States of America (U.S.) President Donald Trump. These documents encompassed a …

      On the second of September 2021, Transnistria (TMR) celebrated 31 years of independence. This de facto independence from Moldova has seemingly been at a standstill since active fighting subsided in the early 1990’s. Although most experts would …

      Somaliland has been open and receptive to international election observers since its constitutional or independence referendum in 2001. International election observation reports have been issued on its 2010 presidential election, its 2012 local council elections and its …

      On May 26th Ireland became the first European Union member state to officially declare that when Israel is building settlements in Palestinian territories, it is committing a de facto annexation. European countries are quite willing to criticise …

      Elections in Scotland last week were declared by the winning Scottish National Party, which secured the fourth victory in a row, as a historic. Even though one seat short of an absolute majority, together with the Scottish …

      Even though decolonisation is widely associated with the second half of the 20th century, it is not yet an issue of the past. The struggle for self-determination in the Saguia el-Hamra and Rio de Oro areas, better …

     President Aslan Bzhania had an important meeting with his counterpart Vladimir Putin on November 12, 2020. With the ongoing global pandemic and subsequent collapse of the tourism sector paired with an energy crisis, Abkhazia has been facing difficult …

       When I started my PhD almost 4 years ago, I wanted to explore the internal dynamics of Transnistria’s secession movement. From what I had read up to that point, it was clear that Russia’s involvement in the …

      During the 44-day conflict in and around the de facto state of Nagorno-Karabakh (NKR), Russia played a noticeably passive role. The Kremlin, in an agreement to protect Armenia, felt no need to intervene because Azerbaijan did not …