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On December 7 Moldova failed in its fifth attempt this year to elect a head of state in parliament. The Communist Party, which governed from 2001 to September 2009 and retains 48 seats in this parliament, blocked the election of Marian Lupu, presidential candidate of the now-governing Alliance for European Integration (AEI) of four parties. Lupu, who leads the Democratic Party within the AEI, received all of the AEI’s 53 votes. Under Moldova’s constitution, however, the president is elected with at least 61 votes in favor in the 101-seat parliament (Moldpres, December 7). With this failure the parliament also lost...

Moldovan soldiers has been issued with an extra ration of onions and garlic to ward off swine flu, the defence ministry's chief doctor said Thursday. "We have introduced an extra 25 grams (one ounce) of onion and 15 grams of garlic in their daily ration," Sergiu Vasilita told AFP. So far, 24 soldiers have completed treatment for swine flu, while 19 are in hospital with acute respiratory infections, he said.

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Europe's last Communist government fell yesterday after defeat in Moldova's general election. A majority in favour of four pro-European parties brought a political era to a close as the ideology of Marx and Lenin, that once ruled the lives of people from Berlin to Vladivostok, passed into the history books. Tiny, landlocked Moldova is Europe's poorest country The pro-Europeans won almost 51 per cent of the vote, giving them the opportunity to form a coalition government, and end eight years of Communist control. They fell short, however, of the total needed to guarantee a non-Communist President in place of the...

The last Communist government in Europe appeared on course to lose power in yesterday’s parliamentary elections in Moldova. An exit poll published minutes after polling closed last night gave the pro-Russian Communist Party just over 41 per cent of the vote, down a fifth on election results in April that sparked protests over alleged ballot rigging. If the poll is reflected in the final result the Communists’ share of the vote would leave them with 45 of the parliament’s 101 seats, ousting the party from government for the first time since 2001. The exit poll, conducted by a grouping of...

Moldovans repeating national elections on Wednesday face a stark choice: vote for the ruling Communist Party and receive loans from their Chinese and Russian backers worth well over a third of national income, or put their faith in the West. The outcome of the vote is too close to call, according to opinion polls and political analysts, though few expect a repeat of the riots and brutal police crackdown that followed April's turbulent elections that were tainted by fraud allegations. Those elections and Wednesday's vote are having an impact well beyond the borders of this small ex-Soviet nation of four...

Note: The following text is a quote: Eight Uzbekistan Nationals Among 12 Charged with Racketeering, Human Trafficking & Immigration Violations in Scheme to Employ Illegal Aliens in 14 States Twelve defendants, including eight Uzbekistan nationals, have been charged in a 45-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Mo., on May 6, 2009, on RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) charges related to labor racketeering, forced labor trafficking and immigration and other violations in 14 states. Abrorkhodja Askarkhodjaev, 30, Nodir Yunusov, 22, Rustamjon Shukurov, 21, citizens of Uzbekistan residing in Mission, Kan.; Ilkham Fazilov, 44, Nodirbek...

CHISINAU, April 29 (RIA Novosti) - Moldova has canceled plans to participate in NATO-led military exercises in Georgia in May, the Moldpres state news agency reported on Wednesday. The Cooperative Longbow 09/Cooperative Lancer 09 command-and-staff exercise will be held from May 6 through June 1. Russia has strongly protested against the planned drills. In response to Russian criticism, the Western military alliance has said the drills were planned before the Russia-Georgia conflict, and that the exercise is open to all ally states, including Russia. "We are convinced, and are telling all our partners, that it is dangerous to appease the...

Moldova has rejected a new ambassador proposed by Romania, an official said Friday, in another sign of deteriorating relations between the neighboring countries. Earlier this month, Moldova accused Romania of supporting violent anti-communist demonstrations by thousands of people who stormed Moldova's Parliament and presidential offices to protest an election that had returned the Communist Party to power. Romania rejected the accusation, but Moldova expelled Romania's ambassador.

CHISINAU, April 21 (Reuters) - Moldova's ruling Communist party was again declared the winner on Tuesday in the ex-Soviet state's disputed parliamentary election, in a recount ordered after violent protests against the initial result. Iurie Ciocan, Secretary of the Central Election Commission, said the results differed little from the original figures issued after the April 5 election, which gave the Communists just short of 50 percent of the vote. "The difference between the recount and original count is not significant," Ciocan told reporters after a Commission meeting. He read out figures showing the Communists far ahead with more than 760,000...

Morally speaking, Russian actions are in a class of their own.This time it's Moldova. Whenever Moscow's former vassal states sputter and crackle with instability, the wheezy old Cold War "moral equivalency" argument gets a new airing. Russia invaded Georgia? Well, didn't the U.S. invade Iraq? Russia sent warships to Cuba? That's because the U.S. is pushing its NATO borders up into Poland and Georgia. Moscow's near-abroad satellites such as Abkhazia and even Belarus are "black holes" of corruption and racketeering? So look at Mexico and its drug gangs. And democracy? Don't go there--remember the first election of George W. Bush....

DON'T feel bad if you can't find Moldova on a map. Our president can't find it, either. Our befuddled secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, could find Moldova, if she wanted to. But she doesn't want to. Because that would mean facing up to Russian mischief. And everybody knows the Russians are going to be our bestest-bestest friends, like forever, dude. They really mean it this time. Anyway, why should we care about an impoverished state the size of a cattle ranch where a population of barely 4 million survives on a per-capita income of $2,500? Why should the Obama administration...

The streets of Moldova and Georgia are boiling with protest and anger, while Kosovo continues to grapple with its self-proclaimed statehood. All three situations originate in the departure from the Cold War-era agreements respecting borders. We are witnessing the repercussions of the "Kosovo precedent," and they're not pretty. What is happening in Moldova? Is it another so-called "colored revolution," or simply an expression of rage by young people who demand to live better lives? It’s anyone's guess. There are certainly specific individuals who are interested in stirring up trouble in Moldova, both within the country and in Romania. Some Romanian...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the United States and Russia should not force former Soviet republics to choose between an alliance with Washington and Moscow, RIA news agency reported on Thursday. .... "It is inadmissible to try to place a false choice before them -- either you are with us or against us -- otherwise this will lead to a whole struggle for spheres of influence," Lavrov was quoted as saying by the agency. Lavrov denied Russia was seeking to build spheres of influence and said it was inappropriate to compare the violence in Moldova with...

MOSCOW – Twenty years ago, as Romanians were overthrowing their despotic Communist ruler Nicolae Ceausescu in an explosive discovery of freedom, their ethnically Romanian brethren in next-door Moldova – then still part of the USSR – were quiescent. In recent years, as nearby Georgians and Ukrainians launched pro-democracy “colored revolutions” that brought down their bureaucratic regimes, the citizens of now-independent Moldova, having elected Europe’s only Communist Party government in 2001, remained conspicuously calm and silent. But on Tuesday, thousands of young Moldovans surprised the world by erupting into the streets of the capital Chisinau to protest alleged fraud in Sunday’s...

The Georgia Watershed By Leon Aron Posted: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 RUSSIAN OUTLOOK AEI Online   Publication Date: November 12, 2008 Fall 2008On August 8, following Georgia's reckless attack on the Russia-supported separatist enclave of South Ossetia, Russia invaded Georgia. For the first time in post-Soviet history, Russian troops crossed the internationally recognized border of a sovereign neighboring state. Yet there were several other lines that may have been crossed. This short war looks more and more like a culmination and an emblem of the troubling evolution in the Kremlin's values and priorities and, by extension, its vision of the...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 2008 – The number of daily attacks in Iraq has dropped nearly 95 percent since last year, a U.S. military official said yesterday. Iraq suffered an average of 180 attacks per day this time last year. But over the past week, the average number was 10, Army Brig. Gen. David G. Perkins, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman, said. “This is a dramatic improvement of safety throughout the country,” Perkins told reporters during a wide-ranging news conference in Baghdad yesterday. He added that the country’s murder rates have dropped below levels that existed before the start of American...

LETTER FROM MOSCOW The war in Georgia has provoked unprecedented levels of patriosm in Russia. The majority of the population supported their army's actions in the Caucasus. And even the fiercest critics of the Kremlin have now become proud Russians. REUTERS Members of the Kremlin-loyal youth organisation "Nashi" wave flags and hold a banner during a protest in front of the US embassy in Moscow during the Georgia war. I never thought I’d see the day when regular Russians, without any prompting, would voluntarily and passionately defend the actions of the Kremlin in conversations with a foreign friend. But at...

Chisinau - The leader of Moldova's renegade province Transnistria on Monday called for a three-fold increase in Russian troops stationed in the region, the Interfax news agency reported. Igor Smirnov, Transnistria's authoritarian leader, said Russia should increase its "peacekeeper" force in the district from some 1,000 to 3,000 men. "I believe that Russia should increase its peacekeeping contingent in Transnistria to 3,000 persons," Smirnov said. "(The increase) would not be in violation of international obligations (taken on by Moscow.)"

TIRASPOL, Moldova, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Moldova's breakaway region of Transdniestria followed Russia's lead on Sunday by recognising Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states. But the move is unlikely to ease Russia's diplomatic isolation: Transdniestria itself is not recognised internationally and no state has so far joined Russia in recognising the two Georgian regions.

The Kremlin’s Achilles’ Heel by Dumitru Minzarari 29 August 2008 Western powers must show more conviction if they want to keep Moldova and Ukraine from being the next Georgia. CHISINAU | As always in times of crisis, the West is striving to assemble its scattered voices into an organized chorus. That, however, is easier said than done because the West is divided into two camps in its dealings with Russia – especially the resurgent Russia of recent years. The first camp – mostly in “old Europe” – shows repentance over the perceived humiliation of Russia by the West, be it...

Poland is to open job market to workers from Moldova, Georgia 26.08.2008 Poland's labor ministry plans to open the country's labor market to citizens of more non-EU countries, including the citizens of Georgia and Moldova. According to the ministry's estimations, the first workers from these countries could arrive to Poland as early as next spring. Danuta Isler reports It was back in February that the Polish Ministry of Labor and Social Policy introduced new regulations allowing the citizens of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia to work in Poland for up to six months. Now the ministry is working on opening of...

Looking for the next South Ossetia. Late one Saturday night last month, I found myself in a Greenland bar conversing with an extremely drunken member of the Royal Danish Navy. When he found out I was American, he lurched over and shared his belief that the United States was preparing to invade and annex Greenland, which currently belongs to Denmark, though it is peacefully moving toward independence. Washington, he explained, was worried about its key missile-defense radar site in far northern Greenland and didn't trust politicians in Denmark or Greenland to guarantee continued American access. "Of course, we know that...

SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned ex-Soviet Moldova on Monday against repeating Georgia's mistake of trying to use force to seize back control of a breakaway region. Russia sent peacekeepers to Moldova in the early 1990s to end a conflict between Chisinau and its breakaway Transdniestria region and is trying to mediate a deal between the two sides. Transdniestria, one of a number of "frozen conflicts" on the territory of the former Soviet Union, mirrored the standoff between Georgia and its rebel regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia until they erupted in war earlier this month. Russia...

SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned ex-Soviet Moldova on Monday against repeating Georgia's mistake of trying to use force to seize back control of a breakaway region. Russia sent peacekeepers to Moldova in the early 1990s to end a conflict between Chisinau and its breakaway Transdniestria region and is trying to mediate a deal between the two sides.

SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned ex-Soviet Moldova on Monday against repeating Georgia's mistake of trying to use force to seize back control of a breakaway region. Russia sent peacekeepers to Moldova in the early 1990s to end a conflict between Chisinau and its breakaway Transdniestria region and is trying to mediate a deal between the two sides. Transdniestria, one of a number of "frozen conflicts" on the territory of the former Soviet Union, mirrored the standoff between Georgia and its rebel regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia until they erupted in war earlier this month. Russia...

ATHENS: Four Moldovan women accidentally violated a 1,000-year-old ban on women entering the all male monastic community of Mount Athos, when they were left on Greek shores by human traffickers. Police said on Monday the women -- aged between 27 and 32 -- as well as a 41-year-old Moldovan man were smuggled from Turkey by boat to the Greek Orthodox community of 20 monasteries, long off limits to women. The reached land on Sunday. "They told police and the monks they were sorry but they couldn't have known this was a no-women area," said a police officer, who declined to...

A long-running conflict between neighboring countries Romania and Moldova has escalated. Moldova has expelled two Romanian diplomats and recalled its own ambassador. Romania calls the measure is “totally unjustified”. Moldova's action is in response to comments by the Romanian ambassador to Moldova, who said the border between the two countries is not legally valid. Until 1991 Moldova was part of the Soviet Union, but in the years before the Second World War most of it's territory was in Romania. Moldova accuses its neighbor of undermining its sovereignty, by offering its 4 million inhabitants citizenship.

According to official data of Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Moldova, due to drought the country lost approximately the half of grains crops. Gross grains yield in Moldova in 2007 totaled 627.500 tons against 1.1 mln tons from the last estimations. At that, wheat yield totaled 431.200 tons against 372.400 tons from the plan. This year, sowing are under wheat totaled 283.700 ha. Ministry of Agriculture noted that Moldova plans to import 120.000 tons of milling wheat. Currently, State reserve of Moldova possesses 27.000 tons of milling wheat. It will be filled up to 30.000 tons due to grains...

CHISINAU, Moldova: An appeals court freed former Defense Minister Valeriu Pasat on Monday, overturning his conviction for abusing his position in the sale of 21 fighter planes to the United States...Pasat, who was defense minister from 1997 to 1999, was accused of selling the MiG planes for US$40 million (€29 million) when the country could have received more money from Iran, which had offered to pay the poor former Soviet republic US$90 million (€66 million). The United States has defended the 1997 sale, with a U.S. government representative testifying that Moldova could have faced economic sanctions if it sold the...

His shabby blazer lopsided with the weight of a dozen war medals, Ivan Kristinko shuffled towards the giant bust of Lenin outside the hulking Supreme Soviet building. Like thousands of others at the celebrations of the 62nd anniversary of the Red Army's defeat of the Nazis, he stood proudly as a band played pro-Russian songs to a parade of tanks, apparatchiks and goose-stepping soldiers. "The Soviet Union lost 27 million people fighting fascism and at times like this we feel very patriotic towards Russia." said Mr Kristinko, 81, a military intelligence officer during the Second World War. It could have...

TIRASPOL, December 17 (RIA Novosti) - Moldova's breakaway province of Transdnestr hopes for closer and long-term relations with Russia, the president of the unrecognized republic said Sunday. Transdnestr, which has a largely Russian-speaking population, broke away from Moldova after a bloody war in the early 1990s. In a September 17 plebiscite, more than 97% of Transdnestr's population voted in favor of independence, and to subsequently join the Russian Federation. The international community, however, did not recognize the referendum results. "We are proving by deeds, not by words, that we'll be developing together with the Russian Federation, and this can be...

The United States and Romania have a joint interest in protecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova and this is why Russia needs to withdraw its troops from the Transdniester breakaway province and stop supporting the Tiraspol separatist regime, US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said on Monday, quoted by Rompres. At the end of a meeting with Romanian Foreign Minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu in Brussels in Monday during the Ministerial Council summit of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Burns said that Russia is isolated among OSCE countries because it does not...

Moldova on November 20 threatened to block Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) until Moscow grants Chisinau trade concessions, dpa reported the same day. "Before Russia can join the WTO, we must resolve a whole series of problems on violations of WTO rules," Moldovan Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev said. "Moldova supports the entrance of Russia into the WTO on the condition that these disagreements in our bilateral economic relations are resolved." Tarlev said Moscow must remove the customs and excise barriers currently applied to most Moldovan agricultural exports to Russia, stop overcharging value-added tax for natural-gas exports to...

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) - The leader of a pro-Russian separatist region in eastern Moldova has submitted his candidacy for a fourth term as Trans-Dniester president, officials said Friday. Igor Smirnov, who has run the province with an iron fist since 1991 when it declared independence from Moldova, said he "trusted in the people's will." The head of Trans-Dniester's electoral commission, Piotr Denisenko, said Smirnov's candidacy met all legal requirements, and the leader's name would be on the ballot for the December 10 election. The breakaway, self-declared republic has no term limits. Trans-Dniester, which is dominated by aging Russians and Ukrainians...

MOSCOW, October 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's railroad monopoly has threatened to cut rail links with Moldova if the ex-Soviet state fails to resume transit via its breakaway region in five days' time, a popular Russian daily said Friday. Vremya Novostei said Russian Railways' move represents the Kremlin's support for conditions proposed by Transdnestr, which has a largely Russian-speaking population, for the resumption of peace talks with Moldova. Russian Railways (RZD) says it has had to send its trains on a detour round the left bank of the Dnestr river since the introduction of customs restrictions against the breakaway province,...

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Vladimir Simonov.) Washington has officially announced its readiness to join the talks on the settlement of the long and slowly developing Transdnestr conflict. The self-proclaimed republic is trying to protect its independence from the encroachments of Moldova. The U.S. State Department has also expressed a desire to become a major player on another "field of contention" in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) - South Ossetia. This enclave is trying to gain independence from Georgia, especially after the bloody clashes of the early 1990s, when both sides lost thousands of lives. To make a...

BRUSSELS, October 25, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- At a European Parliament debate on South Ossetia and Transdniester today, EU officials had two distinct messages. First, that the bloc’s involvement in Moldova will remain strong. Second, that Georgia's requests for greater EU involvement are "unrealistic." From the EU’s point of view, not all frozen conflicts are alike. It continues to acknowledge Russia’s key role in attempts at resolution. But when it comes to its own involvement, Brussels is clearly more enthusiastic about Moldova than it is about Georgia. Moldova will share a border with the EU as of January 1, 2006, when...

October 6, 2006 -- Russia's lower house of parliament has passed a statement backing a recent referendum on independence for the breakaway Moldovan region of Transdniester. The Duma statement said the referendum was legitimate and the international community should recognize its results. In the September 17 referendum, more than 97 percent of voters backed independence for Transdniester, with the ultimate goal of union with Russia. Both the United States and the EU have said they do not recognize its results.

Moldova termed as illegal a referendum in the Trans-Dniester region whose results showed a majority of the people there supported the region's eventual union with Russia, reports from the Moldovan capital Chisinau said on Sunday. Moldova's presidential office said Moldova would not accept the results of the "illegitimate" referendum, which was held earlier Sunday. According to Russia's Itar-Tass news agency, by 17:00 local time, preliminary results had shown that over 90 percent of the voters favored leaving Moldova and joining Russia. Moldovan Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev told Romania's press that he expected the Russian government would not accept the results...

Vladimir Voronin has said that Moldova will never become part of Romania, Focus reported on August 30, citing an interview the Moldovan president gave to BBC television. "Neither Moldova nor any particular part of the country will join Romania either now or after Romania's accession to the EU," he said. Voronin added that the breakaway region of Transdniester has no reason to secede from Moldova because its residents have the same nationality and religion as the rest of the country. BW

ESTONIA Analysts point to Russia's currently weak position on the international stage and its attempts to restore its damaged image at any cost. "The history of the Russian people, their religion and national individuality were the biggest targets of Soviet repressions. The current national awakening is still in the bud and is going through an identity crisis... The Orthodox faith, the main basis of the Russian culture, is awakening. But there are some causes for concern. The Orthodox faith, especially when controlled by the state, does not contribute to the weak Russian democracy. Russia seems to have two ruling ideologies...

MOST people would struggle to point out Pridnestrovskaya Moldavskaya Respublika on a map, let alone pronounce it. Those who can, know it as a hotbed of smuggling, the site of a vast Soviet-era weapons dump, or perhaps the home of Sheriff Tiraspol football club. But this tiny sliver of land, known in English as Transdniestr, is the latest European enclave to make a bid for independence following Montenegro’s decision to declare statehood last month. Igor Smirnov, Transdniestr’s “President”, has announced that its 550,000 people will vote in a referendum in September on whether to seek formal independence from Moldova. “The...

Land Grab // Russia rejects Georgia's and Moldova's territorial integrity The Russian Foreign Minister yesterday for the first time openly declared that the unrecognized republics in the former Soviet Union have a right to self-determination. That is Moscow's response to Western demands that Russia adhere to the 1999 Istanbul Commitments and remove its forces from the territories of Georgia and Moldova. It represents a radical shift in Russian policy and is a means of maintaining influence over pro-Western former Soviet states. Its timing in relation to the G8 summit in St. Petersburg indicates that Russia wants to send a message...

US urges Russia to withdraw troops from Moldova The United States would ratify an adaptation agreement on the European arms treaty only if Russia withdrew its troops from Moldova unconditionally, reports from Moldova's capital Chisinau said on Friday. As an explicit signal on the issue for the first time, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Paula DeSutter said Russia's withdrawal from the Dniester River region was a precondition for the U.S. ratification of the Adaptation Agreement on the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE Treaty). The U.S. official, in charge of arms control, made the remarks after she...

GUAM: Ukraine and friends challenge Moscow Poland supports a new free trade area and international organization which emerged as the leaders of the former Soviet republics of Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Azerbaijan signed an agreement in Kiev. GUAM will first of all cooperate on trade and energy security issues. And this initiative could lead the road for improved economical and political relations between these countries and the European Union. Report by Gabriel Stille 26.05.06 Following a summit meeting between Presidents of Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Azerbaijan, the cooperation between the GUAM countries have evolved to a full scale economical and...

THE ROVING EYE The Gazprom nation By Pepe Escobar Whatever the results of the EU-Russia summit this Thursday in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, there seems to be one clear winner: the Gazprom nation - Russia. With the United States - the European Union's No 1 trade partner and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ally - mired in the Iraq quagmire and the EU with an ongoing constitutional crisis, Russia is exceptionally positioned to have its way in the negotiations leading to the post-2007 "Strategic Partnership Treaty" between the EU and Russia. Former leader Mikhail Gorbachev, in an opinion...

Montenegro's independence could open a Pandora's box for other separatist movements in Europe and the former Soviet Union, with some already claiming the right to follow the same path. Separatists in Spain's Basque and Catalan regions were among the first to welcome Montenegro's independence vote as a positive omen for their aspirations of loosening ties with Madrid. But Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos stressed the situations in his country and Montenegro were "politically, diplomatically, juridically" incomparable and that making such a comparison would represent a "great irresponsibility". His view was supported by European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana,...

Hungarians in Vojvodina, Moldova’s Transdniestria, Caucasus republics, European Muslims, Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina and, why not, Bulgaria’s Turks in the Rhodope Mountains are all examples of potential provocateurs. Even if most of those are in the sphere of speculation, however, when the ghost of separatism in Southern Europe and the Caucasus is awake, it seems that anxiety and caution is “the game of the rule�, to quote Romanian playwright Eugene Ionesco, or helpful to those temporary glitches in logic so terribly reminiscent of the Balkans and the wider Eastern European region, not just of Ionesco’s dramas about discordant families....

Moldova going to quit CIS after Georgia and Ukraine [ 12 May 2006 15:35 ] Moldova is also going to quit the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) following Georgia and Ukraine. APA’s Eastern Europe bureau reports that Moldovan deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Affairs and European Integration Minister Andrei Stratan stated that the government is ready to discuss pro-opposition fraction parliamentarians’ proposal to quit the CIS. In March this year, some parliamentarians from Moldova Noastra (Our Moldova) opposition alliance proposed to annul the treaty between Moldova and the CIS. The proposal was submitted to the Cabinet of Ministers for deciding whether...