MOLDOVA The decision is final and takes effect upon pronouncement. The Constitutional Court on Friday validated the outcome of the July 29 elections and confimed the distribution of seats in parliament: 48 for PCRM, 18 for PLDM, 15 for PL, 13 for PDM, and 7 for AMN. The Court dismissed …

MOLDOVA Until August 29 the outgoing president of Moldova must issue a decree to convene the eighteenth Parliament for the first sitting The Constitutional Court (CC) dismissed the PPCD’s request to recount the votes as groundless. The Court’s decision on the July 29 elections passed on August 14 does not …

KYIV, Ukraine Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko rejected criticism of Kiev’s policy towards Moscow in a stinging attack from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev who had accused him of being anti-Russian. “I am very disappointed by the openly unfriendly” comments by Medvedev, he said in a letter to the Russian president published …