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Wednesday night, President Voronin called for general amnesty for those arrested during last week’s protests, and that further arrests stop.”I call on the competent authorities to provide a general amnesty and call for a stop of all forms of investigations against the street protesters. The recidivists and those from the clandestine world, who made trouble [...]

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On April 7th, the RiskMonitor Foundation of Bulgaria presented the findings of its most recent project, Main Schemes for Laundering of Money Obtained from Human Trafficking in Bulgaria, which was funded with a grant from the Bulgarian Fund of the GMF/Balkan Trust for Democracy using legacy funds from USAID in Bulgaria. This first-of-its-kind research in [...]

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Summit communiqués should always be taken with a healthy dose salt and the recently concluded G-20 summit is no different.   Time will tell whether the lofty deeds of the communiqué will lead to concrete actions.  I am skeptical – remember the same gang that met in London and promised to make the world a [...]

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BUCHAREST — The political crisis in Moldova is deepening. The rift between the government and state authories, on one hand, and the opposition and civil society, on the other, is growing by the day. There are now two radically different stories and messages sent both to the Moldovan population and to the world. It is [...]

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Here is a daily update on Moldova’s political crisis done by independent media and NGOs who decline to be named publicly for fear of retribution in an extremely volatile situation. 1.  Unimedia — Tomorrow at 10:00 the opposition parties will organize peaceful manifestation against the abusing of the ruling party. 2.  Hotnews.md, after www.rsf.org  – [...]

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Moldova is facing a serious political crisis, which has been triggered by the conduct of the parliamentary election on April 5. The crisis is even more serious as   public mistrust in the Moldovan political system has continuously declined over the last several years. Moldovan civil society has repeatedly sent signals to international institutions and [...]

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ANKARA, Turkey — During his first 100 days in power, as a part of his first presidential visit to Europe, U.S. President Barack Obama chose to come to Turkey, where the United States’ image was damaged by the war in Iraq and the tone set by the Bush administration. Even before arriving in Turkey, Obama [...]

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We have all been witnesses to the unfolding of the  21st century’s economic crisis. Yes, we all know that these are the times of a global economic recession and each of us needs to find the best way to deal with it. In such situations, one of our basic human instincts requires that we take [...]

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In his speech in Berlin last year, presidential hopeful Barack Obama stated,”America has no better partner than Europe. Now is the time to build new bridges across the globe as strong as the one that bound us across the Atlantic.” Bridge-building will be sorely needed in the disintegrating global economy, as President Obama embarks to [...]

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