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Tag: frozen conflicts

The death of frozen conflicts: why Ukraine must win

The creation of frozen conflicts has remained a long-standing part of Russian foreign policy. This approach, however, has been finally challenged in Ukraine. Only Kyiv’s victory can end this Kremlin strategy once and for all.

April 11, 2025 - Khusanboy Kotibjonov

Why equating Ukraine’s future with post-war South Korea is a mistake

Proposals are now being made that the war in Ukraine be frozen in a similar manner to the divide to the Korean peninsula (1953). While this may at first glance have appeal, the two conflicts ultimately have little in common.

July 31, 2024 - Samuel Dempsey

Donbas is on its way to become another frozen conflict at Europe’s backdoor

With the Russian and Ukrainian positions too distant from each other and little significant progress in implementing the Minsk agreements, Europe is likely to have another unresolved conflict on its eastern fringes.

February 27, 2020 - Yegor Vasylyev

Talk Eastern Europe Episode 24: Georgia under threat

In this episode Adam interviews Egor Kuroptev, head of the Free Russia Foundation’s Tbilisi office.

November 26, 2019 - Adam Reichardt Maciej Makulski

The dimensions of Georgia’s frozen conflicts

According to the Russian narrative, NATO at its border poses a risk to its national security. This narrative helps to legitimise the Kremlin’s aggressive action, which is aimed at restoring dominance on what it considers to be its “sphere of influence”. Yet the idea that Georgia reversing its Euro-Atlantic course would lead to the resolution of its internal frozen conflicts and ensure regional security is naïve.

When speaking about Georgia’s frozen conflicts, it is important to acknowledge the different parties, aspects and dimensions in order to accurately assess the situation between Georgia, the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and Russia. The conflicts can be viewed in three dimensions: first, an inter-power conflict between non-democratic rule and liberal democracy (i.e. Russia and the West); second, an interstate conflict between Russia and Georgia over the Georgian territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia; and third, as two intrastate conflicts – between ethnic Georgians and ethnic Abkhaz over the Abkhazia territory, and between ethnic Georgians and ethnic Ossetians over what Georgians call the territory of Samachablo/Tskhinvali Region (also known as South Ossetia).

August 26, 2019 - Nino Kukhianidze

Uncertain territory. The strange life and curious sustainability of de facto states

The international order has never been tidy or complete, always having lands with contested sovereignty. The breakdown of empires is the most common catalyst for producing new aspirant states. The post-Soviet space is especially rich in these territories, which includes Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia and Transnistria, along with two more recently established shadowy entities in eastern Ukraine.

April 26, 2018 - Thomas de Waal

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