July 31, 2009 Eurasia News
Moldova’s Communist Party took lead in the snap parliamentary elections on Wednesday, but lost the majority it held for eight years in Parliament to a group of pro-western opposition parties, showed the final preliminary results announced on Friday by the Central Electoral Commission (CEC). According to CEC President Eugen Stirbu, …
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July 31, 2009 Albania
TIRANA, Albania The Muslim community has expressed today against homosexual marriages, while the bill is drafted to a serious breach of morality, which conflict with the Albanian traditions. Law drafters for the people, stated that article made marriage for men asked Prime Minister Sali Berisha, who gave the ‘bomb’ news …
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July 31, 2009 Balkan Press, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia Press, Special Reporters
Bosnia’s Federation government starts auctioning off luxury cars in a meager attempt to meet IMF savings demands. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 8 July approved a previously halted €1.2 billion stand-by arrangement ($1.7 billion) with Bosnia and Herzegovina, designed to ease the effects of the global financial crisis, but …
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July 31, 2009 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
There are indications that at least two new mass graves are located in the grounds of the former UN peacekeepers’ base in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, local media reported on Friday. The information about the possible mass graves was revealed at the time of the 14th commemoration of the …
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July 31, 2009 Balkan News
Addressing growing calls for a presidential republic, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov refused to say whether this would prompt him to seek the job, the Novinite news agency reports. Borisov was non-committal in addressing an ongoing campaign by former president Zhelyu Zhelev to transform the Bulgarian political system into a …
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July 31, 2009 Eurasia News, Romania News
Romanian President Traian Basescu said Thursday that “opposition and democratic forces” had won the snap parliamentary elections in neighbouring Moldova. Bucharest was waiting expectantly on the results of Wednesday’s Moldovan election, which could help determine whether the former-Soviet republic remains in Russia’s orbit.
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July 31, 2009 Eurasia News
După procesarea a 100% a buletinelor de vot, neoficial, raportul de mandate este următorul: PCRM-48 mandate PLDM- 18 mandate PL-15 mandate PD-13 mandate AMN-7 mandate
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July 30, 2009 Eurasia Press, Romania Press, Special Reporters
„În prezent UE, ştiind relaţiile noastre complicate cu România, numeşte un cetăţean român la conducerea grupului de monitorizare a alegerilor noastre. Este o provocare directă la adresa noastră”. (29 iulie – Vladimir Voronin în dialog cu jurnaliştii ruşi) Anul 2009 devine începutul sfârşitului tranziţiei post-sovietice în RM. Sau poate să …
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July 30, 2009 Eurasia News
CHISINAU, Moldova It may be the most enigmatic corner of Europe: a hardscrabble communist holdout run by a dour president who still keeps a bust of Lenin on his desk. “Europe’s largest illegal duty-free shop,” a diplomat once called Moldova, known for rampant trafficking in arms, drugs, cigarettes and sex. …
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July 30, 2009 Eurasia News
MOLDOVA An electoral victory for Moldova’s opposition parties over the ruling Communists soured on Thursday as doubts emerged that the fragmented opposition could band together to appoint a new president. The vote in Europe’s poorest country was a re-run of an election three months ago, which ended in violence after …
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