Sergei Naryshkin
Leader of Moldova's rebel region shrugs off Moscow call to go
November 23, 2011The leader of Moldova's breakaway region of Transdniester (Transnistria) has told RFE/RL's Moldovan Service that his political future will be decided by voters, not by Russia. Igor Smirnov, 70, who has led Transdniester for the past two decades, is seeking...
Moldova between the EU and Russia
January 12, 2011By Vladimir Socor Moldova’s Alliance for European Integration (AEI) has won a new, and potentially longer, lease on life, after 16 months of insecure governance (EDM, January 7). Its post-election government is due to be installed on January...
Russia signals support for Moldovan presidential candidate Lupu
November 30, 2009By Vladimir Socor On November 21-22 in St. Petersburg, the Moldovan governing alliance’s candidate for head of state, Marian Lupu, attended the congress of Russia’s party of power, United Russia, which is officially headed by Prime Minister...
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...
Moldova: Russian peacekeepers, big loans and the need for reforms
October 08, 2009By Louis O'Neill Moldova hosts the Summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States this week and hopes to have a better turnout than President Medvedev did in July, at the annual "summit-at-the-races". Back then, only five CIS leaders made...
Historical Palliatives for the Phantom-Limb Syndrome
August 25, 2009By Louis O’Neill Gallons of ink have been arrayed and countless electrons rearranged with commentary over the 70th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and its secret protocols. Scholars, politicians, human-rights defenders, and historians...