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Visiting U.S. diplomat pledges support for Moldova
November 20, 2009A high-ranking U.S. diplomat visiting Chisinau said the White House supports Moldova's democratic process and will stand by it as it makes its foreign policy choices, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Daniel...
Yatseniuk proposes neo-isolationist third way for Ukraine
November 20, 2009By Taras Kuzio Ukrainian Presidential Candidate Arseniy Yatseniuk’s Foreign Policy In 2008-2009 Arseniy Yatseniuk grew rapidly in popularity and was seen as the rising star of a “new generation of Ukrainian politicians,” with some...
PM Vlad Filat: Moldova is not going to join NATO
November 20, 2009The Republic of Moldova is not planning to accede to NATO, and all media stories concerning such a plan are but inventions, Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat stated in his interview with Russia's official ITAR-TASS new agency, adding that during the...
French Ship Sale to Russia Must Be Blown Off Course
November 18, 2009By David J. Smith The French Navy amphibious assault ship Mistral will visit Saint Petersburg, Russia next week. This port call signals that Franco-Russian relations thrive despite the fifteen months since the Russian invasion of Georgia during which...
NATO's PA support strengthening democratic institutions in Moldova
November 03, 2009Parliament Speaker and acting President Mihai Ghimpu has met a delegation of the Sub-committee on Democratic Governance of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, led by a special rapporteur of the subcommittee Marc Angel, the parliament's mass media relations...
- 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: U.S. supports Moldova's aspirations to boost ties with EU
October 22, 2009During his visit to Romania, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Washington supported democracy in Moldova, one of Romania's neighbours and the poorest nation in Europe, AFP reports. The US vice president also said the U.S. would like to see former...
Russian Military Planners Thinking About a Post-CIS Eurasia
October 21, 2009By Paul Goble In the clearest indication yet that senior officials in Moscow are worried about what will happen if, as seems likely, the Commonwealth of Independent States dissolves, an article in the journal of the Russian military-industrial...
Vaclav Havel on U.S. relations with Central Europe
October 21, 2009As U.S. Vice President Joe Biden travels through Central Europe, Vaclav Havel was up front in an exclusive interview with RFE/RL about what he expects to hear when Biden visits Prague on Friday - a clear vision of American foreign policy in the region...
Acting president says CIS "obsolete" but beneficial to Moldova
October 12, 2009It is beneficial to Moldova to be a member of the CIS even though this organization is "becoming obsolete", the acting president and parliament speaker, Mihai Ghimpu, said at a news conference on the results of the CIS summit in Chisinau on...
