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After Moldova’s elections in February, the country’s leading oligarch, Vladimir Plahotniuc, thought he had things sewn up. While the Russian-leaning Socialists won the most seats, 35, in the 101-seat Parliament, Plahotniuc’s Democrats had won 30 seats and the pro-E.U. ACUM...
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Today we commemorate the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people. 75 years ago, as being allegiadly ‘unreliable’, all of the Crimean Tatar population was deported from its Homeland. The Lithuanian Constitutional Court has referred to the acts against the Crimean Tatar people as a...
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March 18 marked a year since Russia’s last presidential election. Vladimir Putin allegedly won 76.69% of the vote, on a turnout of 67.54% (or 51.7% of all Russia’s eligible voters.) But a recent study of video recordings from polling stations paints quite a different picture of...
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The campaign of Volodymyr Zelensky, a forty-one-year-old actor who, on Sunday, was elected Ukraine’s next President, in a landslide, was light on specifics. He vowed to put an end to corruption and the trade of political favors for illicit wealth, and also to bring peace to the...
( ) Read allThe radio station brought to light Victor Josu, a pro-Russian who is helped by Valeriu Pasat, the ex director of the Service of Information and Security to promote Russia's politics in Moldova. In 2010, Victor Josu was intensively supporting a further organization of a referendum to support the...
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Katie Bowman, a PhD in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specialized in a very fine part of building complex and precise algorithms that could create images through a huge data stream of up to 5 million gigabytes, and then completed her specialization at...
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Today's press conference of the Socialist Party of the Republic of Moldova, informally led by the Moldovan President, Igor Dodon, supports the suspicion that his undeclared and denied plan to place the country under Russian control exists and is still in motion.
( ) Read allDainius Žalimas The role of the Constitutional Court of Lithuania in strengthening western geopolitical orientation of the country
Time flies. 15 years have passed since Lithuania‘s accession to NATO. Once, NATO membership seemed completely out of Lithuania‘s reach. Today, we proudly consider ourselves to be experienced and reliable members of the Alliance.
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Greek judge Linos Alexandros Sicilianos was elected as President of the European Court of Human Rights on Monday.
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Romanian Finance Ministry to launch three Eurobond issuances, as first ever 30-year Eurobonds are included. Former PM Victor Ponta strongly criticized the measure.
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Laura Codruța Kovesi was placed under judicial control, preventing her from leaving the country and talking to the press. Protests to support Kovesi were organized this weekend
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