Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Russia's Ironically Crumbling Post-Empire
"Moldova Communists stay in power," BBC News, 7 March 2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4322617.stm.
"Russia Picking A Fight Over Kyrgystan," by Tim Russo, Democracy Guy, 22 May 2005, http://democracyguy.typepad.com/democracy_guy_grassroots_/2005/03/russia_picking_.html.
There's so many angles to this story: Putin's alienation of Moldova, joint Opposition-Government patrols, Russia's generation-old policy of trading power for money, the wave of democratic revolutions, Russia's army being so incompetent that it can't invade a country where it has military bases, etc.
Can the President Stand the Heat?
In the same month two new ex-Soviet states, Moldova and the unpronounceable Kyrgystan, look to be joining Georgia and Ukraine in cutting their ties to Moscow. But everything is swamped by this headline
Moldova's governing pro-Western Communist Party has won parliamentary elections with a reduced majority
To those who need a second look
Moldova's governing pro-Western Communist Party
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