Russia has practically turned the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) into a hostage, ruthlessly instrumentalizing the organization’s consensus rules. The OSCE’s year-end, ministerial-level meeting, held in Skopje, Macedonia, on November 29 and 30, highlighted Russia’s stranglehold over the OSCE as never before (see Eurasia Daily Monitor, November 29, 30). Western diplomacy hoped...