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12.04.2009, 18:06
Moldova’s Constitutional Court has decided that votes from the parliamentary election must be recounted within nine days. The decision follows violent riots after claims that the original balloting was rigged.
10.04.2009, 19:27
Moldova's President, Vladimir Voronin, called on the country's Constitutional Court to order a re-count of the Parliamentary election.
10.04.2009, 14:40
A Romanian national involved in organizing riots in the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, has been detained, says the country's Prosecutor General’s Office. Further investigations continue into who instigated the protests.
09.04.2009, 00:34
Protesters in Moldova are vowing to continue rioting if the government does not call a new parliamentary vote.
05.03.2010, 17:40
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The US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee has approved a resolution that recognizes the World War I-era deaths of Armenians in Ottoman-era Turkey as an act of “genocide”.
27.04.2010, 17:01
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Ousted Kyrgyz president Kurmanbek Bakiyev has been charged in absentia of mass killings, polygamy, and corruption by the interim government and some human rights groups in the country.
29.07.2010, 11:20
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Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev has signed into law a bill expanding the powers of the Federal Security Service (FSB). The new legislation will come into force after it is officially published.
14.01.2010, 18:40
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Kiev’s Court of Appeals has found Josef Stalin and other Bolshevik leaders guilty of genocide against the Ukrainians during the famine, or “Holodomor” as it is called in Ukraine, of 1932-33.
25.05.2009, 18:59
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The North Korean nuclear test affects the balance of power in the region, says Pavel Leshakov, the head of the Centre for Korean Studies at Moscow State University.
25.08.2010, 18:19
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To many people, Julian Assange, 39, is the personification of people power, brought to the very door of the powers-that-be with the introduction of the omnipresent Internet.
Published: 12 April, 2009, 14:42
A 23-year-old man who took part in mass protests in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, has died on Sunday. Parents claim he was beaten by the police after arrest, while officials say he may have died of gas poisoning.
