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US Senate approves Moldova exemption from Jackson-Vanik Amendment
After the US House of Representatives’ voted in November on lifting the Jackson-Vanik Amendment for Moldova and Russia, the US Senate did the same on Thursday. The bill was approved with simple majority. Only three Democrats voted against, while...
U.S House of Representatives to approve on Friday Moldova’s exemption from Jackson-Vanik Amendment
Republic of Moldova is getting closer to being exempted from Jackson-Vanik Amendment. The regulation will no longer apply to Moldova after it passes both the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States of America. In a statement request...
Moldova to choose between European Union and Eurasian Union
The Moldovans will know by the fifth of August whether a popular referendum on Moldova’s accession to the Eurasian Union will be held. Some 232,000 signatures collected throughout the country have been sent to the Central Electoral Commission of...
Communist symbols banned in Moldova
Communist symbols are banned in Moldova. The Parliament voted in today’s session a law which forbids the symbols of the totalitarian communist regimes condemning the crimes with which they are associated. “The totalitarian communist regime...
New draft law requires Moldovans to change their Soviet passports into IDs
A legislative draft bill meant to change all Soviet-type passports into new, Moldovan Identity Cards has been entered in the Moldovan Parliament. According to Liberal Deputies Valeriu Munteanu and Ion Hadarca, the Moldovans still holding a Soviet passport...
Russia and its post-Imperium policies
The new term of Russian President Vladimir Putin takes place in a different national as well as international context from a decade ago. The idea is stated by the authors of a recent report issued by the Institute for Development and Social Initiatives...
Baltics Fight Back, Romanians Keep Silence
By Diana Ungureanu/ Chisinau / Moldova.ORG/ -- On November 17, 2011, Russia made a statement, according to which, the Baltic countries would be voluntarily joined to Soviet Union and the military actions it initiated would be defensive, not of employment...
US celebrates life of president Reagan on his 100th birthday
The United States is marking the 100th birthday of the late President Ronald Reagan, who served two terms in the White House during the 1980's. Reagan was 93 when he died in June of 2004 after a 10-year battle with Alzheimer's disease. The highlight...
Russia’s 2008 attack in historical perspective
Ninety-one years ago this week, the British cabinet rejected a comprehensive plan to rally an anti-Bolshevik coalition, support White Russian forces, control the Baku-Batumi corridor and the Caspian Sea and, from that position of strength, negotiate...
US presence in Afghanistan as long as Soviet Union's
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The United States has now been fighting in Afghanistan as long as the Soviet Union did before it withdrew in 1989. Friday marks nine years and 50 days that U.S. forces have been fighting in Afghanistan. The U.S. says it will continue its presence in...
