How, where and with what justification could Russia launch an attack? A feature published in Scena9 In 2021, Russian president Vladimir Putin published a rambling essay on the Kremlin’s website called ‘On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians’. As a work of historical analysis it is questionable, but as a historical document, it is […]
Tag Archives: Transnistria
A controversial supplier of electricty from the frozen conflict zone of Transnistria to Moldova has an ownership structure linked to companies involved in a “billion dollar theft” from Moldova’s banking system in 2014 A preliminary investigative report into Moldova’s energy troubles published in The Black Sea and across dozens of the largest news sites in Moldova […]
Stepping through the minefield of history to probe the prospect of unity between two countries at the choke point between the EU and Russia. A feature published in The Black Sea, EU Observer and Moldova.Org European empires have spent centuries carving up the territory of today’s Moldova, bartering pieces back and forth, stitching them together, attaching a […]
Michael Bird Writer & Journalist 