Elections
EU's Eastern Partnership Strains To Juggle Interests, Values
April 30, 2009By Ahto Lobjakas The draft of a document slated for release at an upcoming EU Eastern Partnership summit suggests the bloc is grappling with the task of making the program an ideal fit for all of its prospective partners. While the European Union will...
- April 09, 2009
Cellphones and text messaging are widely believed to have played a crucial role in fostering the Orange Revolution in Ukraine (or at least, making the protests as widespread and successful as they were); the Berkman Center at Harvard published probably...
Moldova: Chronicles of a Post-Electoral Day
April 08, 2009by Vlad Lupan, Independent expert ( GSM +373 79 372020) This is an extended chronology of the events viewed from the street and from conversations with the opposition party high-ranking officials Intro Protests, clashes and destruction are the result...
Violent protests after Moldova poll
April 07, 2009Protesters have broken into the presidency and parliamentary buildings in Moldova, after the Communist party won parliamentary elections. Up to 10,000 people gathered in Chisinau, the capital, on Tuesday to rally against the government after the victory...
Protesters storm Moldovan parliament
April 07, 2009CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Protesters have stormed the Moldovan parliament and a presidential office and set fire to furniture. Police fired water cannons on protesters Tuesday but were unable to stop them from breaking into the buildings. At least...
Moldovan protests turn violent after Communist win
April 07, 2009CHISINAU (Reuters) - Students protesting against a Communist election victory broke into Moldova's parliament building on Tuesday, hurling chairs, tables and papers out into the street and setting them ablaze, a Reuters photographer said. Demonstrators...
Elections in North Caucasus Highlight ‘Institutional Weakness,’
March 06, 2009by Paul Goble Last weekend’s elections for local and republic offices in the republics of the North Caucasus highlight “the institutional weakness” of the Russian state and point to more rather than less instability across that...
- Moldova: "Nyet" to Additional Polling Stations Abroad
February 19, 2009Moldova’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has ignored requests of non-governmental organizations representing Moldovan Diaspora to open additional polling stations abroad for parliamentary elections scheduled for April 5th, 2009. “Polling...
MAE disputes CEC’s decision to stamp identity cards
February 17, 2009The Social-Political Movement “European Action” (MAE) challenged the decision of the Central Election Commission (CEC) to put the electoral stamp in voters’ identity cards in court. On February 16, the MAE lodged an application to the...
CEC: Polling stations abroad can be opened only at embassies
February 17, 2009The Central Election Commission (CEC) says that it is impossible to open polling stations abroad in other places than in Moldova’s embassies and consular offices. The Commission argues that under article 29 of the Election Code, by a polling place...
