Russia
Pro-Putin demonstration in Tiraspol
February 12, 2012Hundreds of people from Transnistria gathered today in Tiraspol in support of their candidature for presidential elections in Russia, informs DNIESTER.ru. They hope that Vladimir Putin, the current Russian Prime Minister, will win the elections which...
February 10, 2012The Eastern European former Soviet countries of Moldova, Ukraine, and Belarus are important to Russia for many reasons, “including geographic location and economic relations,” writes the American Agency for Analysis STRATFOR. According to...
Leader of Transnistria changed his mind
February 07, 2012Evgheny Shevchuk, the head of Transnistria has recently stated on a TV show that he is not willing to talk about the change of the military peacekeeping mission into a civil peacekeeping mission. He is supposed to meet between February 28-29 in Dublin...
Putin to return to power with damaged credibility and legitimacy
January 31, 2012Putin’s faltering return In May 2011 we argued for a modest advance in Russian democracy, namely that both Medvedev and Putin should stand as candidates to offer a modicum of choice between, roughly speaking, modernisation versus continuity. For...
Moscow to use Shevchuk in Transnistria to politically dominate Moldova
January 26, 2012Tiraspol’s New Leader Shevchuk: A Man We Can Do Business With? Yevgeny Shevchuk’s victory in Transnistria’s “presidential” election is an opportune development for Russia, at the opportune moment. Moscow was slow to comprehend...
Moldova's Transnistria set for makeover from Smirnov to Shevchuk
January 26, 2012Smirnov Out, Shevchuk In: A Short-Term Win-Win For Moscow In Transnistria The 21-year “Smirnov era” is over in Transnistria, the secessionist enclave in eastern Moldova. The Kremlin has finally dumped Transnistria’s antiquated &ldquo...
Russia might ban migrants who violate the immigration legislation
January 26, 2012The immigrants who have repeatedly violated the migration legislation of Russia might be banned from entering the country. Russian Premier, Vladimir Putin has suggested to introduce a new regulation of five to ten years of ban to those who don’t...
Economic crisis behind ‘winds of change’ in post-Soviet states
January 24, 2012The leaders of the post-Soviet state and in particular those who have successfully constructed “administered democracies” no longer fear “orange” revolutions, but they are being pushed toward “reforms” of one kind or...
New York: Russian army out of Moldova! (VIDEO)
January 23, 2012A group of Moldovans protested on Saturday, January 21, in front of the Permanent Mission of Russian Federation to the UN in New York. They demonstrated against the deployment of the Russian army of the territory of the Republic of Moldova. The organizers...
Freedom of press still questionable in Transnistria after leadership change
January 20, 2012Chisinau/ Moldova.ORG/ -- Grigori Volovoi, a journalist at the independent TV station Dnestr TV from Tiraspol had been humiliated while trying to work on a story about the change of administration of the so-called Ministry of Security from Tiraspol. ...