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Gheorghe Mihai - new chief of Moldovan intelligence agency
September 28, 2009The 53-strong majority Alliance for European Integration in the Moldovan Parliament on Friday dismissed Artur Reshetnikov from the post of Director of the Information and Security Service (ISS) and appointed colonel Gheorghe Mihai a new security chief...
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...
Moldovan Opposition Pulls Together, But Is That Enough?
August 11, 2009By Robert Coalson, Oana Serafim The leaders of the four opposition parties that together hold 53 of the 101 seats in Moldova's new parliament were all smiles over the weekend when they announced their new coalition, Alliance for European Integration...
Opposition urges CoE's Terry Davis to condemn Moldovan Communists
July 16, 2009The leader of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM), Vlad Filat, today sent an open letter to Council of Europe's (CE) Secretary-General Terry Davis, proposing that a new chapter on the 21st century communism should be added to the CE resolution...
Russia Special Services Again Play the ‘Jewish Card’ against Ukraine
July 09, 2009By Paul Goble For entirely understandable reasons, there has been much speculation but little serious discussion about the specific role Moscow’s intelligence services have played in relations between Russia and the former Soviet republics in...
Crimean Tatars expose Russian sensitivity to its Soviet past
June 24, 2009By Taras Kuzio President Viktor Yushchenko has strongly condemned the 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars on many occasions and ordered the Security Service (SBU) to open a special investigative unit examining crimes against humanity committed by the...
New Russian Film Presents Yury Andropov as Model Leader
June 17, 2009By Paul Goble A new film entitled “Yury Andropov. 15 Months of Hope” presents the longtime KGB head as the Soviet leader “most attractive for the Putin regime” because his brief reign as CPSU general secretary represents &ldquo...
