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Moldova after 20 years: A mixture of lost opportunities, successes and challenges
September 07, 2011Remarks by Vlad Spânu, President of the Moldova Foundation, at the Panel Discussion: "Moldova’s Democratic Transition: 20 Years of Challenges and Successes" held on August 31, 2011 at NED in Washington, DC For me, like for many...
First U.S. Ambassador to Moldova Mary Pendleton reflects on pace of change
September 07, 2011On August 31, RFE/RL spoke to Mary Pendleton, Washington’s first ambassador in Chisinau (1992-1995), on the sidelines of an event at the National Endowment for Democracy called "Moldova’s Transition: 20 Years of Challenges and Successes...
Historical politics in the Republic of Moldova – an unfulfilled obsession
August 22, 2011Historical politics that one talked about in case of Poland and Ukraine was a constant for the foreign policy of Moldova. Unlike two other countries previously mentioned, Moldova has failed to raise this kind of politics to the rank of state policy; it...
People who have forgotten their past (a sad story of a demolished military cemetery in Moldova)
July 29, 2011Chișinău / Moldova.ORG/ -- Each year, in the Republic of Moldova's capital Chisinau, more people meet to honor the memory of fallen heroes during the two World Wars. These people do not attend a grand, well groomed with flowers and monuments memorial...
July 08, 2011Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- Today the Beltsi city Appeals Court had been hearing the petition of Communist Party of Republic of Moldova (CPRM) which demands to annul the results of the recent local mayor elections from the 19th of June. The CPRM states...
Communist Party is trying to invalidate the local elections in the ex-soviet Republic of Moldova
July 08, 2011Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- There was a capital’s election season in the Republic of Moldova. So the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, was in the expectation of the new mayor. The waiting has become a protracted process because of Communist Party of...
Russia intends to strengthen its control over Transnistria (read: over Moldova and Ukraine)
July 07, 2011Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- While there are discussions about the "5+2" negotiations over the Transnistrian conflict, life goes on, and so the political life inside Transnistria, Moldova’s enclave on its eastern border with Ukraine that...
The Moldovan Supreme Judicial Council appointed new chairman of the Supreme Court
July 07, 2011Chișinău / Moldova.ORG/ -- The new interim chairman of the Supreme Court of Justice has been appointed its vice-chairwoman, Raisa Botezatu, who is also chairwoman of the Supreme Court Criminal College. She will ensure the interim of the Supreme Court...
The Constitutional Court declared the Supreme Court's chairman dismissal illegal
July 05, 2011Chișinău / Moldova.ORG/ -- After the communist MP, Sergiu Sirbu, said that the elimination of Muruianu, chairman of the Supreme Court, is illegal and said the procedure was carried out with serious violations, the Constitutional Court also agreed that...
Moldovan Justice Minister on the dismissal of the Supreme court's chairman
July 05, 2011Chișinău / Moldova.ORG/ -- Moldovan Justice Minister, Oleg Efrim, argues that information and that he would have voted against the Supreme Court's chairman dismissal was launched in order to denigrate his image. "I do not know who started these...