Protests
US: Tea Partiers rally in Washington DC against health care bill
March 17, 2010On Tuesday, a Tea Party rally was held in Washington, DC to protest the $875 billion health care bill. Tea Party protests, a series of nationally-coordinated protests across the United States beginning in early 2009, play a key role in opposing the Democratic...
7 April 2009: Communists were planning buying crowd-control vehicles
March 15, 2010After the April 2009 unrest, when anti-Communist protests degenerated into vandalism of the Parliament and Presidential buildings, the Party of Communists was looking into buying crowd-control vehicles. This revelation was made after the current Alliance...
Russia: Kaliningrad protests force region health minister to resign
March 10, 2010By Paul Goble Yesterday, Elena Lyuikova, the Kaliningrad health minister, retired “at her own request,” according to Russian media, but because local political activists had staged 63 demonstrations over the last 18 months calling...
Kaliningraders want to live like Poles or Lithuanians
March 04, 2010By Paul Goble The residents of Kaliningrad are protesting because they would like to live as well as their neighbors in Poland and Lithuania, a motivation many in Moscow find it difficult to fathom because many Russians view Eastern Europe as poor...
Moldova: Communist-appointed Interior Minister banned from leaving country
March 03, 2010Communist-appointed Interior Minister investigated for April 2009 events Communist-appointed Interior Minister Gheorghe Papuc, as well as former Chisinau police chief Vladimir Botnari, are now being officially investigated for workplace negligence...
Moldovan pensioners start government picketing marathon
February 24, 2010About 150 pensioners – members and supporters of the Salvgardare Organization for Defending Citizens’ Rights – gathered in front of the Government Building in the Chisinau central square on Wednesday morning, and stated they were launching...
Secret documents in Moldova reveal plans to "fight against Romanianism"
February 24, 2010The current Government has initiated a campaign to publish secret policy documents released by the former Communist Government (2001-2009). In the process, media outlets have published documents that indicated, for example, that the Communists had expelled...
Moldovan government reveal secret documents of Communist persecution
February 17, 2010Secret documents reveal Communist persecution of April protesters: teachers and student were expelled and warned The Filat cabinet has decided to release a number of secret documents put together by the Communists when they were in power. A set of...
Moldova's General Prosecutor: Police shot real bullets on April 7
February 15, 2010General Prosecutor Valeriu Zubco said this weekend that security forces used real bullets during the repression campaign on April 7, right after protesters vandalized the Parliament and Presidential buildings. An employee of the Moldovan secret service...
Bloody April 2009 events were a turning point for Moldovan mass media
January 28, 2010The on-line press is developing in Moldova with an astonishing success, which is a consequence of the important role the press played in the post-election events of April 2009, presumes the Independent Journalism Center (CIJ). In its Report on the mass...