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The 29 July early parliamentary elections in Moldova swept Europe's last ruling Communist party from power by pro-EU opposition parties. With 98.3 percent of votes counted, the Communist Party won 48 seats in the 101-seat Moldovan parliament and the four...
Tags: Moldova, Pridnestrovie, Transdnistria, Russia, Romania, BalkanBlog, Ari Rusila, twitter
Twitter revolution did not change government in Moldova but created big drama instead including a couple of conspiracy theories and “fast-track” mini enlargement of EU with one million new EU citizens Moldova possibly losing a quarter its...
Tags: Moldova, Romania, Pridnestrovie, Transnistria, Russia, EU enlargement, protest, Twitter
Last week-end Moldova had parliamentary elections. The ruling Party of Communists won so no big change in politics is expected. Elections in EU’s border have however some significance as the new leadership will be the counterpart during period after...
Tags: Moldova, Transdnistria, Pridnestrovie, Russia, EU external relations, CFSP, ESDP, BalkanBlog, Ari Rusila, separatism
After years of deadlock year 2008 showed some promising signs of progress with dispute between Moldova and Transdnistria/Pridnestrovie – its separatist region or independent state depending of viewpoint. After a 7-year long pause the leaders of...
Tags: Caucasus, Moldova, Pridnestrovie, Transdnistria BalkanBlog, Ari Rusila, crisis management
When I sometimes in my blogs wrote about Transdnistria (officially Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic – PMR) the most common feedback has been following: “Transnistria is a refuge for the criminal organizations being engaged in the illegal...
Tags: Caucasus, Pridnestrovie, Transdnistria, Moldova, Nato, OSCE, EUBAM
Federation Council, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, is backing independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia - Georgia’s two rebel provinces. The vote came after a brief war between Russia and Georgia following Georgia’s...
Tags: Pridnestrovie, Transnistria, Moldova, Caucasus, Balkans