CHISINAU – Moldovan police have detained 193 protesters in the capital Chisinau, including eight under-aged people, Russian RIA news agency quoted the Interior Ministry as saying on Wednesday. “They have been charged with looting, hooliganism, robbery and criminal attacks,” RIA quoted a ministry spokeswoman as saying.

TSKHINVALI – Georgia will lose the last opportunity to put pressure on South Ossetia with the commissioning of a gas pipeline from Russia, South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity said before a Tuesday meeting with Gazprom representatives. “One the gas pipeline extension from the North Ossetian town of Dzuarikau becomes operational, …

CHISINAU — Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin called on the West to help restore order after protesters seized his offices and ransacked parliament, Interfax news agency reported. “ Moldovan authorities are extremely concerned by the mass disturbances in the centre of the capital and call on Western structures to intervene to …