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Is Kyiv Preparing to Change Course on the Crimean Tatars?
July 03, 2009By Paul Goble Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has asked prosecutors to consider opening a criminal case against those who deported the Crimean Tatars and other ethnic groups from Crimea in 1944, an apparent response to a Crimean Tatar hunger...
Putin’s Approach in Pikalevo Won’t Save That "Company Town"
July 03, 2009By Paul Goble Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s dressing down of an oligarch in Pikalevo may have made for good television, but experts say it won’t save that company town from a new catastrophe later this year or keep any of the 458 other...
Moldova: Communists say to create best conditions for voting abro
July 03, 2009The Party of Communists (PCRM) proposes to create the best conditions, so that all citizens exercise their right to vote, no matter whether they stay in Moldova or abroad. PCRM representatives Vladimir Turcan and Grigore Petrenco made statements to this...
Transnistria's leader reluctant to resume talks with Chisinau
July 03, 2009The president of the unrecognized Dniester Moldovan republic, a.k.a. Transnistria, Igor Smirnov, has rejected a proposal by the head of the OSCE mission to Moldova, Philip Remler, regarding the resumption of Transnistrian settlement negotiations "...
Video: Sarah Palin Resigns as Alaska Governor
July 03, 2009Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Friday she is resigning from office on July 26, raising speculation that she would focus on a run for the White House in the 2012 race. Palin, 45, is a major star in the GOP and is seen as a leading candidate for the party...
EU suspends the Eastern Partnership Program, Swedish PM said
July 03, 2009The European Union is suspending the Eastern Partnership Program “due to new challenges”, the EU Chairman-in-Office, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has announced. Reinfeldt said the step had been taken in connection with EU...
Before the Summit, the U.S. Forgives Russia for Invading Georgia
July 02, 2009By Pavel Felgenhauer On Monday July 6, President Barack Obama is expected in Moscow for a summit to discuss nuclear arms control, Iran, Afghanistan the post-Soviet space and other issues. It has been announced that Obama will spend most of July 6 in...
AMN: democratic force’s duty to save Moldova from Communists
July 02, 2009The Moldova Noastra Alliance (AMN) is convinced it is democratic formations' sacred duty to ‘save our Motherland from the Communists’, AMN leader Serafim Urechean stated on Wednesday. He said that during the 8 years of a complete state power...
OSCE PA Chairman: Press report on Moldovan elections not correct
July 02, 2009The statement reported in Moldpres on 29 June quoting Petros Efthymiou, Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Second Committee, concerning the recent Moldovan elections, is not correct. At the Assembly’s ongoing Annual Session in Vilnius...
FBI Releases Details of 2004 Talks with Saddam Hussein
July 02, 2009U.S. security records reveal that former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein told U.S. federal agents in 2004 that he allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction because he did not want to appear weak to Iran. A research institute, the...
