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Moldova schedules presidential election for 10 November
November 04, 2009The Moldovan parliament will try to elect the head of state in a week's time. The date of the presidential election, 10 November, was set by MPs several hours ago. The decision was supported by the 53-strong ruling Alliance for European Integration, while...
Moldova's acting President predicts end to political deadlock
November 04, 2009Acting Moldovan President Mihai Ghimpu says enough members of the opposition Communist Party will eventually help elect the country's new president and end the current stalemate, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. Ghimpu, a leader of the four-party,...
Post-Communist tensions between civic, material values
November 04, 2009By Peter Fedynsky The collapse of the Berlin Wall came as the result of social, political and economic pressures that built up over decades behind the Iron Curtain. Its demise has exposed some glaring material differences in post-Communist societies...
Republicans gain in US State elections
November 04, 2009By Richard Green The U.S. Republican Party is cheering victories in governor's races in two states that played a pivotal role in Democrat Barack Obama's 2008 presidential election victory. Many observers say the results are a referendum on Mr. Obama...
Russian passport holders in Moldova's Transnistria on the rise
November 03, 2009Russia continues to issue its citizenship to Dniester residents (aka Transnistria, Moldova's separatist region), so that the number of holders of Russian passports amounted to 150,000 compared with 130,000 half a year ago, the foreign minister of Moldova...
Mircea Geoana pleads for strategic partnership with Moldova
November 03, 2009Romania's new president will have to have a strategic partnership with the Republic of Moldova, relying on an extremely tight economic partnership between the two countries, Social Democratic Party (PSD) president Mircea Geoana told the Invest Energy...
Moldovan presidential candidate meets Russian ruling party leaders
November 03, 2009The chairman of the Duma International Affairs Committee, Konstantin Kosachev, met the head of the Democratic Party of Moldova, Marian Lupu on 31 October. Lupu, who is a presidential candidate in Moldova, was invited to Moscow by the One Russia party...
Moldovan PM to meet with Romanian President, Russian counterpart
November 03, 2009Prime Minister Vlad Filat was on ProTV tonight, speaking about the current political situation in Moldova and about the various loans that Moldova is seeking abroad. Mr. Filat spoke about the possibility of getting a one-billion-dollar loan from China...
Moldova becomes electoral topic in Romanian presidential election
November 03, 2009Mircea Geoana, the Social Democratic Party's presidential candidate, said during an energy forum on Monday that he would like a "strategic partnership" with Moldova, which would include "a very important economic accent." Mr. Geoana...
NATO's PA support strengthening democratic institutions in Moldova
November 03, 2009Parliament Speaker and acting President Mihai Ghimpu has met a delegation of the Sub-committee on Democratic Governance of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, led by a special rapporteur of the subcommittee Marc Angel, the parliament's mass media relations...
