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Ukraine needs a president who can break the spell
February 05, 2010By Serhiy Hrabovsky No matter who is ultimately elected Ukrainian president in the February 7 runoff, the winner cannot become president of all Ukrainians. The mere fact of being elected will not make the winner president of all Ukrainians. Considerable...
The Soviet Story: A must see documentary
January 28, 2010By Robert McConnell In May, 2008, The Soviet Story premiered in the European Parliament where it now has been screened several times. Since then The Soviet Story has been screened on national television in 10 countries and has won several prestigious...
Barbed wires to be removed from Moldova-Romania border
January 14, 2010The barbed-wire lines, stretching for dozens of kilometers along the Moldo-Romanian border on the eastern bank of the Prut River, shall be dismantled and removed from the face of Earth before March 2010, as per the plan just approved by the Moldovan Government...
Soviet Discourse serves Russian elites, not ex-Soviet republics
December 09, 2009By Paul Goble Presenting the Russian Federation as the Soviet Union of today is “becoming ever more popular not only in Russia but also in the West,” a leading Moscow commentator says, but it does little to help Russia and the other...
CIS countries becoming West’s ‘cordon sanitaire’ to contain Russia
December 08, 2009By Paul Goble On December 8 is the 18th anniversary of the Beloveshchaya accords by which the leaders of the three Slavic republics agreed on the disintegration of the Soviet Union, but the most important meeting about the region on that date this...
Most Moldovans support nationwide presidential election - poll
December 04, 2009As many as 74 per cent of Moldova's population support the idea of electing the country's president in nationwide elections, according to the results of a survey conducted by the centre for sociological surveys and marketing CBS AXA and the IDIS-Viitorul...
How a Finn set in train the destruction of the Soviet Union
November 30, 2009By Paul Goble Even as the Russian media marks the 70th anniversary of the start of the winter war between the Soviet Union and Finland, a Moscow commentator is arguing that a Soviet Finn disappointed in his hopes to become the president of a Sovietized...
US Planning to Treat Russia as It Did the USSR
October 14, 2009By Paul Goble The Obama Administration “has decided to conduct its relations with [the Russian Federation] just as it did with the Soviet Union,” an approach that reflects Washington’s judgment that “in the near future, Russia...
Seven presidents attend Chisinau CIS Summit
October 07, 2009The CIS Summit will be held in the Moldovan capital next Friday in the absence of the Presidents of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. According to the press service of the Moldovan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration...
Dismantling missile defense in Eastern Europe shows weakness
September 24, 2009By Thaddeus McCotter At a time when recession still wreaks havoc upon our families' prosperity, it is often difficult to focus on our national security. But focus we must. President John F. Kennedy warned: "The surest path to war is the path...