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Russia's Evolving Leadership: Perceptions of Putin (part 2)
July 05, 2011Putin’s goal was to fix the country, which meant restoring state control (politically, socially and economically), strengthening the FSB and military and re-establishing Russia’s influence and international reputation — especially in...
Russia's Evolving Leadership (part 1)
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July 05, 2011Russia has entered election season, with parliamentary elections in December and presidential elections in March 2012. Typically, this is not an issue of concern, as most Russian elections have been designed to usher a chosen candidate and political party...
70 years ago today: 13-14 June 1941, 300,000 were deported from Bessarabia
June 15, 2011Deportations of people from historic Moldova were first put in practice under czarist rule. Under Soviet rule, several waves of deportations of Moldova's native population were carried out: the first one just months before the outbreak of World War II...
China aircraft carrier confirmed by general
June 08, 2011The head of China's General Staff of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has confirmed that China's first aircraft carrier is under construction. Gen Chen Bingde refused to say when the carrier - a remodelled Soviet-era vessel, the Varyag - would be ready...
A journey from the evil empire to the land of the free
March 21, 2011Text of the speech made by Vlad Spânu, President of the Moldova Foundation, at the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society (University of Virginia in Charlottesville), as it was delivered on March 18, 2011 (for Romanian translation, click here...
‘Parade of Sovereignties’ after 1991 Putsch Marked Real End of USSR
August 19, 2010By Paul Goble It has long been customary to view the meeting of the presidents of the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Belarus as the date on which the Soviet Union died, but in fact, Sergey Markedonov argues, the three of them did not so much cause its...
Will Moldova be the next Ukraine?
July 30, 2010By Vlad Spanu Less than a year after the country's last elections, the Republic of Moldova finds itself at a crossroads once again. The "Twitter revolution" in Chisinau last April that made waves in the international media mirrored, somehow...
Both aspects of Russia’s ‘Nationality Problem’ remain unsolved
July 29, 2010by Paul Goble Both aspects of Russia’s “nationality problem” – the country’s relationship with the outside world and the relations among ethnic communities within its borders – remain unsolved and remain defining...
How Khrushchev tried and failed to restore the soviet statue of liberty Stalin had blown up
July 05, 2010by Paul Goble Apparently inspired by his visit to the United States, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev decided to restore the Soviet Statue of Liberty that Stalin had destroyed in 1941, but he ran out of time – the restoration was scheduled to happen...
Moldovan premier commemorates victims of Stalin-era repression
June 28, 2010Prime Minister Vlad Filat today laid flowers at a foundation stone of a monument to the victims of the Stalin-era repression in the Square of the Chisinau-based train terminal, the government's press service has said. Attending the event were members...