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Belarus News (BelTA)
April 19, 2018
“The parties discussed the cooperation between Belarus and Moldova in trade, economy and investment, and reviewed the prospects for joint projects in agriculture, road construction, healthcare and also the issues humanitarian and interregional cooperation. In addition, an agreement was reached toÃÂ ...
UNIAN
April 13, 2018
To date, the situation is complicated by the internal conflict among Moldova's political elites. ... Both the fact that Russia launches such negotiations and the fact that Russia is getting engaged in the Moldovan crisis with supposedly peacekeeping initiatives, or at least with the consent to resolve the conflict,ÃÂ ...
Kyiv Post
April 12, 2018
“The parties called for the speedy completion of the negotiation process on the signing of an intergovernmental agreement on the functioning of the Dniester ... The Ukrainian president thanked the Moldovan side for helping improve the health of Ukrainian children from Donbas in Moldova,” the report says.
The Jamestown Foundation
April 10, 2018
Shor remains at large, and in the meantime, he became mayor of a large town, took over the leadership of a political party and is gearing up to enter the parliament. Keen observers of Moldovan politics know that this would be impossible without the protection from the head of Moldova's ruling DemocraticÃÂ ...
Eurasia Daily
April 6, 2018
Late 2017, the Moldovan parliament passed a law by the ruling Democratic Party to combat foreign propaganda. News and analysis shows with military and political coverage produced in countries that did not ratify the European Convention on Transfrontier Television (which is not ratified by Russia) areÃÂ ...
EUobserver
April 5, 2018
Moldova still has a long way to go to implement the reforms it promised as part of a free trade and political deal with the European Union, according to a ... are due to be held before the end of the year – and as the issue of aligning with the EU or with Russia continues to be prevalent in Moldovan politics.
RadioWest
April 4, 2018
Parties are talking but, at the same time, no results, no changes. ... Annexation of Crimea, the events in eastern Ukraine - Donetsk, Lugansk regions - also policy with regard to Georgia, policy with regard to Moldova, meddling into the political system or sometimes elections of neighboring countries. This isÃÂ ...
Eurasia Daily
April 4, 2018
In the Moldovan capital Chisinau, a poll is launched to ask citizens what they think of unification with the neighboring Romania. ... The organizer of the monitoring is Gheorghe Costandachi, head of the European Social and Political Center, has called political parties, members of civil society, population andÃÂ ...
IR INSIDER (blog)
March 28, 2018
The leadership of Moldova is headed by Igor Dodon of the dominant Moldovan Party of Socialists. ... Since its inception as a state, Moldovan domestic politics have been embroiled in a political tug-of-war between Russia and the West, and have often served as a microcosmic display of this power politicsÃÂ ...
Balkan Insight
March 27, 2018
Moldovan students wave national flags while chanting slogans during a protest following the second round of presidential elections. ... “This geopolitical cleavage will dominate the electoral campaign for sure, with both main parties peddling it in their public discourses,” political analyst Ion Tabarta toldÃÂ ...
Romania-Insider.com
March 27, 2018
Several MPs talked about the union with the Republic of Moldova during this meeting, including Chamber of Deputies president Liviu Dragnea, who is also the leader of the ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD), and Senate president Calin Popescu Tariceanu. Liviu Dragnea said he wants Romania to uniteÃÂ ...
POLITICO.eu
March 25, 2018
“We must condemn the propagation of this political plague in the Republic of Moldova,” Dodon, a pro-Russian former leader of the Party of Socialists, wrote on Facebook on Sunday. He accused the Moldovan government led by the Democratic Party — which is pro-EU — of being responsible for “theÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 21, 2018
“We are facing this year new elections that are in danger of not being implemented as this electoral law — there's no deal between the three parties to ... Bosnian Croats — specifically, the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian Croats' largest political party, better known as theÃÂ ...
New Eastern Europe
March 14, 2018
Domestically, the full implementation of EU energy standards will require a strong political will of the Moldovan elite, as it would diminish Gazpromôs .... Her new book Joining A Prestigious Club explores the impact of the cooperation between Europarties and domestic parties on party development in theà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 13, 2018
Moldova's Intelligence and Security Service said then that Bolboceanu had been caught while meeting with a Russian spy. Bolboceanu's name circulated in the 2016 trial of a former policeman and a model who were sentenced for attempts to bribe several lawmakers from pro-European political parties inÃÂ ...
Emerging Europe
March 12, 2018
The same happened with a group of judges who became involved in a large money-laundering operation from 2011-2012, which used Moldovan banks as transit ... Most of local and national representatives switched their party affiliation as a result of a serious campaign of political 'recruitment', mixing softÃÂ ...
Carnegie Europe
March 6, 2018
In Chisinau, Ion Stavila, the Moldovan Foreign Ministry's ambassador-at-large with responsibility for the conflict, agreed that their situation was very ... They have another agenda, seeing political opportunities in Moldova as the governing PDM party, which has declared itself “pro-European,” and its de factoÃÂ ...
Eurasia Daily
December 31, 1999
Former Romanian president, one of the leaders of the Moldovan Unionists Party of the National Unity (supporters of Moldova joining Romania) Traian Basescu has announced that in case of unification, the eastern border should be lying along the Dniester River. “The fate of Transnistria, most part of whichÃÂ ...
Polygraph.info
February 20, 2018
McKew's firm, Fianna Strategies, has worked as a foreign agent, representing the Georgian government and a political party in Moldova in the U.S.. President Donald Trump's national security adviser, General H.R. McMaster, answering a question from a Russian delegate at the Munich Security ConferenceÃÂ ...
Kyiv Post
February 18, 2018
... 2018, Ukrainian-Moldovan political consultations took place at the level of Deputy Foreign Minister Vasyl Bodnar and State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Moldova Tatiana Molchan,” the ministry said on Thursday. During the consultations the partiesÃÂ ...
JAMnews (blog)
February 17, 2018
Such limitations are common in other countries – the Moldovan approach will not block all Russian TV content, as entertainment programmes will ... The amendments to the codex were worked out by MPs from the leading Democratic Party of Moldova as they advocated for the amendments the most,ÃÂ ...
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso
February 13, 2018
On the contrary, we propose that the diaspora can directly finance political parties. In a context like Moldova, where many people refrain from donate to parties for fear of repercussions, it would be an important step forward. Moldovan citizens living in the West generally have greater financial resources andÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
February 9, 2018
Candu and Filip are both members of the pro-Western Democratic Party of Moldova (PDM). Moldova's parliament on February 8 adopted a declaration condemning alleged Russian attacks on cybersecurity and accusing Moscow's secret services of financing Moldovan political parties. Pro-RussianÃÂ ...
The Jamestown Foundation
February 7, 2018
The Moldovan Ministry of Defense is hoping to soon begin the second phase of the DCBI, which would entail actual training for the various branches of the Armed Forces (Army.md, January 29). However, in order to be promoted to the second phase, the Moldovan government needs to show a politicalÃÂ ...
Open Democracy
January 29, 2018
Announcing the plans, Vladimir Plahotniuc — leader of Moldova's Democratic Party, oligarch and media magnate — asserted that “Moldova is vulnerable to media manipulation campaigns waged from without. .... Nonetheless, local propaganda (i.e. by Moldovan political figures and oligarchs -ed.) remainsÃÂ ...
Transitions Online
January 26, 2018
The declaration, which parliament still needs to vote on, also asks Russia to stop supporting and financing Moldovan political parties. ... Earlier that month, the head of Moldova's pro-Western ruling party, Vlad Plahotniuc, accused Russian authorities of harassing him and other party officials with bogusÃÂ ...
Balkan Insight
January 25, 2018
The ruling party deputies condemned defamatory declarations by Russian officials towards Moldova, alleged harassment of Moldovan officials, the ... The statement called on Russia to stop financing political parties in Moldova, noting that such funding from external sources is illegal, as is support lent inÃÂ ...
Eurasia Daily
December 31, 1999
And it seems that they are implementing one task to break not only Moldova's but also Transnistria's ties with Russia,” Krasnoselsky said. He noted that some Moldovan politicians are trying to own the achievements in the Moldovan-Transnistrian dialogue: the leader of the Democratic Party of MoldovaÃÂ ...
Eurasia Daily
November 24, 2017
... that Moldova's decision to Russian journalists, political analysts, officials, ... to Moldova to develop interregional ties that the Moldovan party ...
Civil Georgia
November 24, 2017
The party also says that many achievements in Moldova and Georgia ... party of the center-right, which currently includes 77 member parties and ... The European Georgia party joined the political network in September, 2017.
EUobserver
November 24, 2017
While our country's record has not always been perfect and there is room for improvement, the Democratic Party of Moldova (PDM) political ...
Eurasia Daily
November 23, 2017
Moldovan Socialists' initiative on resignation of Chisinau mayor fails. According to data of Central Election Commission Moldova for 7:00pm on ... The referendum was initiated by the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova and supported by President ... Right-wing parties have boycotted the voting.
TASS
November 22, 2017
Russian Politics & Diplomacy · World · Business & Economy · Military & Defense ... Moldova's independence-minded Transdniestria region that proclaimed ... titled 'The Political and Legal Grounds for International Recognition of ... plus Two mechanism of negotiations [Moldova and the Dniester as parties to ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
November 20, 2017
A local referendum held in Moldova's capital, Chisinau, on whether to ... Several political parties and factions, including Chirtoaca's ... Moldovan authorities detained Chirtoaca in May, and later placed him under house arrest pending a trial. ... This year, the Liberal Party kicked off a campaign to collect ...
New Eastern Europe
November 14, 2017
Through this cooperation, parties from Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine ... The Moldovan Christian Democratic People's Party and Ukrainian People´s ... On this basis, an assessment of the political situation is made, after which the .... to personality-oriented party politics that are embedded in clientelistic ...
Eurasia Daily
November 7, 2017
The move is initiated by the Liberal Party and the Socialist Party of Moldova that are opposing the ruling majority. They call the reshuffle “a ...
The Economist
November 7, 2017
IF RECENT events in Moldova, a tiny former Soviet republic, were used as the basis for a political-cum-gangster thriller, critics might find the storylines a bit far-fetched. ... Vlad Plahotniuc (pictured), the head of the Democratic Party. ... that it was another Moldovan politician, currently a fugitive from justice in ...
TASS
November 3, 2017
So far, the parties have a common understanding about the cost of ... the parties will be concluded "unless the Verkhovna Rada puts political ... Unity Party announced that Romania would accept Moldova without Transnistria. ... that the current Moldovan establishment is getting ready to integrate the country ...
Eurasia Daily
November 3, 2017
On Nov 3, political representatives of Moldova and Transnistria had a meeting ... The parties came to an agreement and signed a protocol to open a bridge ... to suppose that the Moldovan and Transnistrian sides wanted to see the ... of the Catalonian people; 15:40 Will Estonia have left-wing politics again?
Eurasia Daily
November 2, 2017
Russia insists upon it as a mediator in the Moldovan-Transnistrian conflict ... in the '5+2 format' (Moldova and Transnistria as conflicting parties, ...
Emerging Europe
November 1, 2017
It was the political parliamentary parties, who had elected the president until ... the Russophile Igor Dodon of the Socialist Party of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM) .... The court held that, in the spirit of Article 91 of the Moldovan Constitution, “the president finds .... How Will Trump's Visit Affect Polish Politics?
Eurasia Daily
October 28, 2017
The parties discussed prospects for further development of the ... nobody in the State Duma locks in their own "political apartments". ... Kazbek Taisaev is in Moldova on a working visit, at the invitation of the Party of ... Taisaev has not met yet with the head of the Moldovan Communist Party Vladimir Voronin.
The National Interest Online
October 27, 2017
Moldova—Europe's poorest country—has struggled with the ... power in Moldova has alternated between the Communist Party, which has traditionally sought stronger ties with Russia, and self-declared pro-European parties, ... law experts—could lead to “undue influence” by political or business interests.
Transitions Online
October 25, 2017
The suspension came after a ruling by Moldova's Constitutional Court, ... Anatol Salaru, who had lost the political support of his Liberal Party.
The Jamestown Foundation
October 25, 2017
The Moldovan Constitutional Court temporarily suspended the ... The Liberal Party, at that point a member of the ruling coalition, withdrew its political support for Salaru, and the ... The European People's Party of Moldova, headed by Leanca, ... Moldova's highly polarized politics notwithstanding, Dodon and ...
Eurasia Daily
October 21, 2017
President of Moldova Igor Dodon has announced start of nationwide actions to support ... Dodon repeatedly stated that his political opponents “spare no effort to ... elections of the president,” Dodon said addressing the Moldovan citizens. ... by the parliamentary majority represented by the Democratic Party.
http://en.crimemoldova.com/
October 20, 2017
Grigore Petrenco, the former communist deputy and party leader "Our House Moldova", and his family were granted political asylum in ...
Irish Examiner
October 18, 2017
Ireland's lack of female political leaders exposed ... of the 46 states surveyed that has a quota system for political parties, ... Ireland had no female party leaders, compared to an average of ... in five countries (Moldova, Poland, Norway, Sweden, and Estonia). ... Irelandgenderpoliticsfemale parliamentarians ...
bne IntelliNews
October 17, 2017
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate, Sooranbai Jeenbekov secured 54.3% of the vote in the October 15 presidential election in ...
Balkan Insight
October 17, 2017
The two main pro-European opposition parties in Moldova ... on time, so that the two parties can synchronise their political and electoral agendas. ... voters see the Democratic Party as the supreme evil in Moldovan politics”.