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Greece, Netherlands join EU visa center in Moldova
January 14, 2010From now on, Moldovan citizens will be able to apply for and obtain Greek and Dutch visas at the EU Common Visa Centre at the Hungarian embassy in Chisinau. The Hungarian ambassador to Moldova told a news conference today that Greece and the Netherlands...
How a Finn set in train the destruction of the Soviet Union
November 30, 2009By Paul Goble Even as the Russian media marks the 70th anniversary of the start of the winter war between the Soviet Union and Finland, a Moscow commentator is arguing that a Soviet Finn disappointed in his hopes to become the president of a Sovietized...
EU visa center expanding work geography in Moldova
September 07, 2009Starting from early 2010, the EU Visa Center in Chisinau, working under the auspices of the Hungarian Embassy here, will expand its work geography by adding 4 more countries - Finland, Belgium, Switzerland and Greece, it was said at the Moldo-Hungarian...
Stalin Planned to Annex Parts of Iran, Turkey and China
August 31, 2009By Paul Goble Stalin viewed the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which allowed Moscow to seize the Baltic countries, Bessarabia, and part of Poland as “a model” for the subsequent annexation of portions of Iran, Turkey and...
Historical Palliatives for the Phantom-Limb Syndrome
August 25, 2009By Louis O’Neill Gallons of ink have been arrayed and countless electrons rearranged with commentary over the 70th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and its secret protocols. Scholars, politicians, human-rights defenders, and historians...
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact And Slippery Slope Of Big Power Politics
August 23, 2009By Ahto Lobjakas On August 24, 1939, the British writer Evelyn Waugh wrote in his diary (I'm quoting from memory): "Russia and Germany have signed a cooperation pact. War now inevitable. Went for a stroll.'" Waugh here unwittingly offers...
23 August: The Night Stalin And Hitler Redrew The Map Of Europe
August 21, 2009By Robert Coalson A world slipping ever closer toward war awoke on the morning of August 24, 1939 to the shocking news that Adolf Hitler's Germany and Josef Stalin's Soviet Union had signed a nonaggression pact. Hitler was beaming when his foreign...
Moscow attempts to reinterpret the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
August 20, 2009By Pavel Felgenhauer Russian Manipulation of History: "the Art of Interpretation" To mark the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact by Russia (USSR) and Nazi Germany on August 23, 1939, the Foreign Intelligence...
Russia's Sakhalin residents want to be part of Japan
August 12, 2009By Paul Goble Sakhalin Residents Petition to Have Their Territory Transferred to Japan A group of Sakhalin residents, after a visit to Tokyo, are not only studying Japanese but also collecting signatures on a petition asking that Moscow hand over...
Do we detect a neo-Finlandisation in the Eastern neighbourhood?
May 28, 2009By Michael Emerson The term Finlandisation has dropped out of current diplomatic usage, since Finland has long since quit this state of affairs and Russia is not the Soviet Union. But still the term has stuck in the terminology of international relations...