This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers October 26 to November 1.

Both Moldova and Georgia also have a Russian military presence. In Moldova this is in the breakaway region of Transnistria, ...

After the ruling party declared victory in Georgia, Estonia's former President Toomas Hendrik Ilves said Georgians are being ...

Pro-Western forces were defeated in a ballot marred by accusations of widespread vote rigging, throwing into serious doubt ...

That evidence was presented shortly thereafter, when a BBC reporter interviewed a woman at a polling station ... control over its breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

The Ukrainian scenario is the ultimate threat, even here in the United States. Democracy may well triumph over the billionaires in the U.S., Moldovan, and Georgian elections. But they will be Pyrrhic ...

Some showed up at the polls thinking that they’d be paid immediately, according to the BBC: A BBC producer heard a woman who had just ... South Ossetia and Abkhazia—that receive Russian ...

However, the second option has caused yet-to-be-resolved territorial conflicts in both countries – Transnistria for Moldova, and Abkhazia and South Ossetia ... and 44 of the 100 MPs in its parliament ...

Moldovan woman casts election ballot ... NATO and Russia can continue to attempt to exert its former sphere of influence. South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia, as well as Nagorno Karabakh in ...

At Columbia's AC4, she is continuing her independent research on women's leadership and empowerment in peace negotiations in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, focusing on wars/conflicts in South ...