OSCE should play a bigger role in the South Caucasus in working toward peaceful settlement of protracted conflicts and democratic processes in the region. This was the consensus during the meetings in Baku, Yerevan, and Tbilisi, as the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Kazakhstan’s Secretary of State and Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev, visited the three capitals on his first visit to a region with the organization’s field presence on February 15-17. READ MORE

Russia, it would seem, is finally making some of the right noises about tougher sanctions against Iran. Excellent. READ MORE

Vladimir Putin was in favor of Barack Obama's reconfigured missile defense plan before he was against it. READ MORE