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Moldovan parliament sets up commission to probe postelection riot
October 21, 2009The Moldovan parliament has set up a special commission in charge of investigating the causes and consequences of the 7 April mass riots in Chisinau. The commission has nine members representing all five parliamentary factions. Under the decision passed...
Moldova makes progress in preventing, combating human trafficking
October 21, 2009Moldova has made outstanding progress in the prevention and combating of the human trafficking, and I am sure that we will manage to defeat this vice as a result of cooperation. US Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Moldova Asif J. Chaudhry...
Moldova: Parliament amends code on television and radio broadcast
October 19, 2009The Moldovan Parliament approved in the first reading the bill on amending the Code of Television and Radio Broadcasting. The document was supported by all the 53 members of the majority Alliance for European Integration. The opposition Communist faction...
Moldovan officials provide details about explosion in Chisinau
October 19, 2009Senior officials from Moldova's power structures and the Ministry of Health were summoned to parliament on Thursday evening to present information about the explosion that took place in the Chisinau central square the night before during the Chisinau...
Moldovan Officials Say Blast An 'Act Of Terror'
October 16, 2009Moldovan officials say the explosion of a grenade at a concert in downtown Chisinau on October 14 that left some 40 people injured was an "act of terror," RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. Prosecutor-General Valeriu Zubko said police initially...
Stalin returns to the Moscow Metro
October 14, 2009Produced by Alexander Kulygin of RFE/RL's Russian Service Josef Stalin’s name and image once graced the walls of the Moscow metro, but they disappeared during the era of de-Stalinization in the 1950s. Now, months before the 130th anniversary...
Report: Moldovan police beat over 300 peaceful protesters in April
October 14, 2009Moldovan police beat and otherwise ill-treated at least 300 peaceful protesters of the nearly 700 they detained following the parliamentary elections in April, says a report released today by the Soros Foundation – Moldova. In at least 100 cases...
Ecological decontamination project completed in Moldova's Iargara
October 08, 2009Within the scope of the international development cooperation of the Czech Republic and Republic of Moldova, the Association IARGARA (consisting of the companies MERCED a.s. and Dekonta a.s.) has realized a project in the area of elimination of an old...
Australian Frogs Change Their Tune to Find Love
October 08, 2009By Stuart Cohen Australia's frogs are having trouble finding love. Traffic noise and other sounds of city life, such as air conditioners and construction noise, are drowning out the mating calls of male frogs in urban areas, leading to a sharp drop...
Interview with Herta Mueller, 2009 Nobel prize for literature
October 08, 2009Romanian-born author Herta Mueller today won the 2009 Nobel prize for literature. Mueller, whose parents were members of the German-speaking minority in Romania, spoke to RFE/RL's Romania-Moldova Service in 1999 about growing up under Ceausescu and how...