Moldova
Biden to Bucharest: Why Romania?
October 23, 2009By Damon Wilson Vice President Biden is visiting Central Europe this week as part of the administration’s damage control efforts in the wake of the botched roll-out of its missile defense decisions. The White House’s objective extends...
- Biden Urges Central Europe To Help Guide Fledgling Democracies
October 23, 2009It was the key speech of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's tour to three Central and Eastern European countries this week. Speaking at the University of Bucharest’s Central Library, which was heavily damaged by fire during Romania's anticommunist...
- Moldova needlessly alienates neighbors
August 27, 2009By Louis O’Neill Moldova’s new government has some major work to do to fix the relationships with Romania and Ukraine, which deteriorated under the Communists. In his poem “Mending Wall,” poet Robert Frost concludes regretfully...
Moldovan communists say opposition may provoke civil war
June 25, 2009The ruling Communist Party (PCRM) does not rule out the fact that the opposition's actions may lead to "a Kosovo variant" in Moldova, to a civil war. A PCRM pre-electoral statement has said that if events develop under the opposition's scenario...
US official: Support for Central and Eastern Europe Will Continue
June 19, 2009By Elizabeth Saam Dr. Philip Gordon, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, noted in the House Committee of Foreign Affairs, Europe Subcommittee hearing (held on June 16, 2009) that one of the main goals of the new administration...
EU Seeks to Boost Partnerships With Former Soviet Republics
May 08, 2009By Lisa Bryant The European Union is seeking to bolster economic, trade and security ties with six former Soviet states through a key partnership agreement it is offering up at a summit in Prague. The effort is being viewed as a way to weaken Moscow...
- WHO Urges Governments To Put Flu Plans Into Action
April 30, 2009By Ron Synovitz The World Health Organization (WHO) has upgraded its pandemic alert level for a new strain of the swine flu from Phase 4 to Phase 5 on its six-phase scale. The declaration of Phase 5 means that the new flu virus has crossed borders...
Urgent Letter of Concern on ongoing human rights violation
April 14, 2009Human Rights NGOs and experts have filed a letter through which they express their concerned of the widespread violations of human rights, particularly of arrested persons, after elections. Each of the organisations, as well as individual lawyers working...
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...
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...
