Conflits Gelés by Laurent Hazgui at PCP Photographie

The explosion of the Soviet bloc has given birth to territories where life seems to have stopped on December 26th, 1991. Four separatist states, whose status, according to the Organization for Security for and Co-operation in Europe, is “frozen conflict,” have been at war since the declaration of their independence: Transnistria (Moldova), South Ossetia (Georgia), Abkhazia (Georgia) and Nagorno-Karabakh (Armenia/Azerbaijan).