Opposition
Russia slams Transdniester president’s grip on power (VIDEO)
October 15, 2011Moldova’s breakaway republic of Transdniester is holding presidential elections in early December. With its current president in power for over 20 years and running for reelection, Russia says the status quo is stalling the republic’s development...
Belarus opposition leader Andrei Sannikov jailed
May 14, 2011A high-profile opposition leader in Belarus has been jailed for five years on charges of organising mass protests after last year's presidential poll. Andrei Sannikov, a former deputy foreign minister and co-founder of the Charter 97 group, had pleaded...
Clegg attacks Cameron over alternative vote
April 24, 2011In an interview with the Independent on Sunday, he accused the prime minister of "defending the indefensible". The deputy prime minister described those pressing for a "No" vote in the referendum on the alternative vote system as...
Bahrain declares state of emergency in response to protests
March 15, 2011Bahrain's king has declared a three month state of emergency in response to weeks of anti-government protests by majority Shi'ites against the Gulf state's Sunni rulers. State television said Tuesday the king has ordered the commander of Bahrain's armed...
Canada and US condemn arrest of opposition members in Russia
January 06, 2011Russia has started the New 2011 Year persecution the human and democratic rights activists. The arrest of opposition members in Moscow created a wave of reaction from the democratic leaders of the world. On January 2, 2011, Boris Nemtsov, leader of...
January 06, 2011By Vladimir Kara-Murza In Russia, New Year’s Eve is usually a joyful family occasion. Opposition leader Boris Nemtsov spent it in a police detention cell — a five-by-ten feet concrete cubicle with no windows, no ventilation, no plank bed...
Is part of the georgian opposition financed by Georgian organized crime?
July 01, 2010by Alexander Melikishvili On June 22, the German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau published an article by Andreas Förster entitled “Georgian Mafia Planned a Coup,” in which it was stated that part of the Georgian political opposition...
Moldovan Communists want end to probe of Soviet past
May 12, 2010Moldova's opposition Communist Party has asked the government to stop investigating Soviet-era crimes in exchange for support to change the way the country's president is elected, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. Communist leader Vladimir Voronin said...
Moldova: Opposition Communist party leads in opinion poll
May 11, 2010Moldovan opposition Communists stay high in opinion polls. If a parliamentary election were held next Sunday, the Communist party would win 28 per cent of the vote. The Liberal Democrats, the Democrats and the Liberals would also make it to parliament...
Opposition ‘Committee To Protect Ukraine’ Launched
May 11, 2010The Ukrainian opposition has announced the creation of an opposition movement, the Committee to Protect Ukraine, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. The committee is made up of opposition parties represented in parliament: Fatherland, the Reforms and...