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In Fight for Votes, Moldovan Parties Fail Marginalised Groups

The rights of women, Roma, people with disabilities and the LGBT community barely feature in Moldova’s July 11 election. Where Moldova’s pro-European Action and Solidarity Party, PAS, devotes an entire chapter of its 45-page election manifesto to the rights of women, its chief rival in this month’s election, the pro-Russian …

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Grisly Discovery in Serbia Brings Trauma Back to Kosovo Village

Relatives of war victims from the small Kosovo village of Rezalla say the recent discovery of bodies that had been hidden in a mass grave in Serbia has revived traumatic memories of the brutal killings in 1999. Heavy rain cut short Besim Deliu’s work at the memorial site in the …

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A Global US Can’t Avoid Confronting China and Russia

Forget talk about ‘re-sets’ in relations; the US is on collision course with two implacable adversaries that are bent on testing its leadership and resolve. The US is on a collision course with China and Russia over both ideology and influence. As a liberal democracy, the US system of government …

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