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Moldova: Strangers In Their Own Land
August 20, 2009By Natalia Morari A friend of my husband's decided to send her daughter, Nastya, to a preschool. According to her, she and her family speak only Russian and know virtually no Romanian. I'm not saying whether that is right or not, but just reporting...
Text and drive "Cow" video 'shocks' not only students
August 19, 2009The police department in Gwent and the Tredegar comprehensive, a local high school in Wales, made a shocking video depicting an accident caused by texting and its emotional aftermath. It attempts to stop car crashes caused by the driver texting while...
Beaumont tornado's touch down caught on Blackberry
August 18, 2009On August 18, video from a local television station (KFDM, see video here) shows a tornado touched down at a Kohl's Department Store, skipped over a Wal-Mart and continued on to Parkdale Mall in Beaumont, Texas. The tornado has caused the collapse of...
Horse hit by Villagra's car during Rally of Argentine
August 18, 2009Rally car driver Federico Villagra hit a wild horse during the Rally Argentina on a dirt track in Patagonia (see graphic video of the crash below). Villagra was unable to avoid one of horses that crossed the road, sending the horse flying 30 feet (about...
No End Of Frozen Conflict In Moldova's Transdniester
August 18, 2009By Gregory Feifer Forlorn concrete apartment blocks greet visitors just across the heavily guarded border of this lush sliver of land along the Dniester River. Elderly men push baby carriages through the half-abandoned streets: it's mostly the very...
US Prosecutors Charge Three In Largest Identity Theft In History
August 18, 2009Officials in the United States have charged a 28-year-old American man and two foreign accomplices -- identified as "having resided in or near Russia" -- with data theft from an estimated 130 million credit and debit cards. That makes it the...
Russia: Dam Disaster Opening New Era of ‘Technogenic’ Disasters
August 18, 2009By Paul Goble The deadly disaster at the Sayano-Shushensk dam in Khakassia, the fifth largest hydro-electric facility in the world, occurred because officials sought to generate more electricity than the dam was designed to produce and because Moscow...
The Romanian citizenship to Moldovans: myths vs. reality
August 18, 2009The granting of the Romanian citizenship to Moldova's citizens is one the ways of the Europeanization of the Republic of Moldova, Chief Researcher of the Institute for Political and Foreign Relations of Romania Dan Dungaciu considers. In the Romanian...
No Ukrainian language school in Russia for about 2M Ukrainians
August 17, 2009By Paul Goble Ukraine Has Nearly 3,000 Russian-Language Schools, but Russia Doesn’t Have Even a Single Ukrainian-Language One Despite Moscow’s frequent charges and complaints, Kyiv pays for the operation of nearly 3,000 Russian...
Houston Socialite Joanne Herring Seeks Help For Afghanistan
August 12, 2009A few years ago, people learned about a little-known chapter in the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union through a book and, later, a movie called "Charlie Wilson's War." Charlie Wilson was a maverick Texas congressman, who found...