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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...
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...
Estonia sign programme of cooperation in regional development
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July 14, 2010The Moldovan Construction and Territorial Development Ministry and the Estonian Interior Ministry signed a programme of cooperation in regional development in Chisinau on 7 July. The Moldovan ministry s press service has said that the sides agreed on...
Moldovan foreign minister visits Estonia
June 21, 2010Deputy Premier, Foreign and European Integration Minister Iurie Leanca has visited Tallinn at the invitation of his Estonian counterpart Urmas Paet. The visit fit into Iurie Leanca's European tour, the Moldovan ministry's media and public relations department...
Survival of numerically small peoples ‘depends almost entirely’ on the Internet
May 28, 2010By Paul Goble Because the survival of the numerically small Finno-Ugric peoples in the Russian Federation “depends almost entirely” on the use of their languages on the Internet, an Estonian expert says, activists, businesses, and officials...
Russian Diplomat: Recognition of Soviet occupation of Baltic States ‘inevitable'
April 22, 2010By Paul Goble Vyacheslav Tuchnin, the minister counselor at the Russian Embassy in Tallinn, has told local ethnic Russians that “the recognition by Russia of the occupation of Estonia by the Soviet Union is inevitable” and that they...
Power vertical: Russians increasingly angry at flouting of the law
March 06, 2010By Paul Goble While Russians remain more deferential or even indifferent to the actions of the powers that be than many nations, they are increasingly agitated by two high profile cases in which members of the post-Soviet Russian elite have signaled...
Estonia to open Eastern Partnership training center
February 15, 2010Estonian Foreign Affairs Minister Urmas Paet said during a meeting in Parliament this weekend that his country intends to establish a training center for the Eastern Partnership (EP) countries. EP was started by the European Union to develop closer ties...
Russian speakers in Lithuania face similar problems to those in Ukraine
February 13, 2010By Paul Goble Russian commentators have devoted enormous attention to the Russian-speaking communities in Estonia and Latvia, but they have largely ignored the Russian-speaking community in Lithuania not only because it is significantly smaller but...