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Baltics Fight Back, Romanians Keep Silence
December 08, 2011By Diana Ungureanu/ Chisinau / Moldova.ORG/ -- On November 17, 2011, Russia made a statement, according to which, the Baltic countries would be voluntarily joined to Soviet Union and the military actions it initiated would be defensive, not of employment...
Russia defends Soviet annexation of Baltic States and Moldova
December 06, 2011By Vladimir Socor/ Jamestown Foundation/ Washington, DC -- On December 1 and 2, respectively, Lithuania’s and Estonia’s ministries of foreign affairs (MFAs) refuted the Russian MFA’s latest claims that the three Baltic States (Estonia...
Detention and human rights in Moldova discussed in Chisinau
December 03, 2011OSCE/ Chişinău/ -- A set of recommendations on how to strengthen local commissions which monitor places of detention in Moldova was presented at a roundtable meeting held by the OSCE Mission to Moldova and the nongovernmental Moldovan Institute...
Russia killed Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, Moldova keeps silent
December 02, 2011By Vladimir Socor/ Jamestown Foundation/ Washington, DC -- In December 2007, Moscow killed the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) officially, declaring a unilateral “moratorium” (suspension) of indefinite duration on Russia...
Bessarabean Nation, Is December 1st Your Holiday? (VIDEO)
December 01, 2011By Diana Ungureanu/ Chisinau / Moldova.ORG/ -- For those who feel they are real Bessarabeans, I think the answer would be “yes”. But what does the date of December 1st mean for those “caught” between Prut and Dniester? Is the day...
International negotiations on Transnistria conflict set to re-start after six years
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November 30, 2011By Vladimir Socor/ Jamestown Foundation/ Washington, DC -- Lavrov squashes hope for constructive restart of Transnistria negotiations. International negotiations on the Transnistria conflict are scheduled to re-start on November 30-December...
Leader of Moldova's rebel region shrugs off Moscow call to go
November 23, 2011The leader of Moldova's breakaway region of Transdniester (Transnistria) has told RFE/RL's Moldovan Service that his political future will be decided by voters, not by Russia. Igor Smirnov, 70, who has led Transdniester for the past two decades, is seeking...
Poll shows Moldovans losing interest in EU, warming up to Russia
November 18, 2011RFE/RL/ Chisinau -- A new poll shows Moldovans are losing interest in the post-Soviet country's European integration and are warming up to the idea of joining a Commonwealth of Independent States' (CIS) free-trade zone led by Russia, RFE/RL's Moldovan...
Mediators on Transnistrian settlement visit Chisinau and Tiraspol
November 05, 2011OSCE/ Chisinau --- The mediators and the observers in the Transdniestrian settlement process, who concluded a two-day visit to meet the political leadership in Chisinau and Tiraspol today, welcomed the decision of the sides to accept the invitation...
Like Moldova, Ukraine wants both ways - free trade agreement with EU and CIS
November 03, 2011By Pavel Korduban/ Eurasia Daily Monitor/ Washington, DC -- Ukraine has signed a free trade agreement with the CIS and completed its free trade talks with the EU. Unlike membership of the Customs Union (Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan), which Moscow keeps...