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Moldova still suffers from Nazi-Soviet Pact's pernicious results
August 22, 2009By Prof. Ernest H. Latham, Jr. Ph.D., Washington, DC Tomorrow, August 23rd, the world will give passing note and a brief mention to the fact that some seventy years ago one of the most cynical and unscrupulous treaties in all of history was signed. ...
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...
Molotov-Ribbentrop: Different Wikipedias Tell Different Stories
August 21, 2009By Robert Coalson It is the Internet age’s reference of first resort -- the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Millions of people every day turn to it to get “just the facts” on everything from beekeeping to the battle of Austerlitz...
Russia Needs Honest Discussion of Molotov-Ribbentrop
August 20, 2009By Paul Goble Russia Needs Honest Discussion of Molotov-Ribbentrop Lest It Repeat Mistakes behind It, Moscow Analyst Says Unlike France or Britain where few people today are prepared to defend their countries’ 1938 Munich Accord with Hitler...
Christoph Zopel: Elections in Moldova should be free and fair
July 20, 2009Christoph Zopel, ex-minister of foreign affairs of Germany, chairman of the Committee for Economic Policies and Social Cohesion of the Socialist International, asserts that elections in Moldova should be free and fair. He made this declaration on Monday...
Latvia: Aug 23 - Date For Remembering Stalinist, Nazi Victims
July 16, 2009The Latvian parliament after a heated debate during the extraordinary meeting on Thursday passed in the final reading the bill about declaring August 23 the date for commemorating victims of Stalinist and Nazi regimes. The responsible parliamentary committee...
Obama, Merkel Speak With 'One Voice' On Iran
June 26, 2009By Andrew F. Tully German Chancellor Angela Merkel met today with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House, and at a joint news conference the two leaders condemned the Iranian government for cracking down on citizens who have questioned the...
Nord Stream, Matthias Warnig and the Gazprom Lobby
June 15, 2009By Roman Kupchinsky The ongoing battle over the construction of the Russian-German Nord Stream gas pipeline is reaching a critical stage. In June the German ministry of defense once again voiced its opposition to the proposed route of the pipeline, and...
Controversy: Article Blaming Poland for Starting World War II
June 04, 2009Moscow Distances Itself from Article Blaming Poland for Starting World War II By Paul Goble The Russian defense ministry said today that an article which was put on its site a few days ago and which has sparked outrage among some Russian...
- July 16, 2008
By Ryan R. Miller, Central Europe Digest* In response to petitions by Polish and Lithuanian environmentalists, the European Parliament (EP) voted last week on a non-binding resolution concerning the environmental threat posed by the planned Nord Stream...