EU’s Dilemma and Russia’s Plan B for Europe

September 8, 2011 - 17:21 | Irina Severin

By Irina Severin

Moldova as Starting Point

Polish Eastern Partnership initiative supported by Sweden and later by other EU countries was a step meant to bolster European ambitions of Moldova and Ukraine. But putting Moldova and Ukraine at the same context with Azerbaijan, Georgia, Belarus, and Armenia – countries that except Georgia either don’t have European aspirations or they are not relevant in the existing conjuncture – diminishes the appeal of the Eastern Partnership for both countries.

What distinguishes Moldova from other Eastern partnership countries besides its small dimensions and geographical approximation to the EU is its ethnic, linguistic, historical and cultural approximation to Romania, which already is a member of the EU. This particularity is a clear entitlement for Moldova to become one day a member of the EU.

Filat, Lazurcă și Muhametșin în pălării la Festivalul Mărului

Filat, Lazurcă și Muhametșin în pălării la Festivalul Mărului

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Azi, 30 septembrie, la Soroca a avut loc a doua ediție a „Festivalului Mărului”, informează UNIMEDIA. La eveniment au fost prezenți premierul țării, ministrul Agriculturii, dar și Ambasadorii României și Rusiei în R. Moldova.

Potrivit serviciului de presă al Guvernului, în debutul evenimentului, preşedintele raionului Soroca Victor Său, a menţionat că raionul este pe primul loc în ţară după suprafaţa plantaţiilor de livezi de meri – 7 458 ha. Anual, în raion se produc 40 mii tone de mere, 50-55% dintre care se exportă, iar alte 25% se prelucrează. 

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Odnoklassniki blocks largest social group in Moldova

Odnoklassniki blocks largest social group in Moldova

Sep 13, 2012

By Andrei Fornea

Moldova

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The Russian social network Odnoklassniki blocked Nicolae Petrov, a young man of 18 who owned the largest group in Moldova entitled “Latest News from Moldova”. The community of 369,000 people discussed daily news in Moldova.

Nicolae also held a jokes group in Russian with more than 1 million members and a YouTube group with 230,000 members. Thus, by blocking it, all three groups comprising around 1.6 million people were deleted.