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...reached a state of unrest that remains perilous to citizens and journalists, according to media reports. Friday’s demonstration in Cambridge, organized by members of Harvard Romanian Association and the Romanian Student Association at MIT, occurred simultaneously with protests in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Chisinau, the country’s capital city. “Above all, it’s a collaboration between the students and the people in the Boston community,” said HRA President Rares N. Pamfil ’10. “The organization usually hosts events on campus...
...Moldova Election Triggers Protests Allegations of vote-rigging in the Communist Party's April 5 parliamentary election victory spurred more than 10,000 people to mass in Chisinau, the capital of Europe's poorest country. Coordinating via Twitter and text messages, protesters stormed government buildings and clashed with police. Nearly 200 were arrested. President Vladimir Voronin accused Romania of conspiring to foment unrest--a charge Bucharest denied...
...Sadr was hiding in his hometown, Najaf, in one of the holiest Shi'ite mosques. I have no doubt that U.S. forces could have made Fallujah a ghost town and leveled the mosque in Najaf with al-Sadr in it, but then what would Klein have said? Rodney Schulling Chisinau, Moldova Culpability or Shame? You wrote about how Bush administration officials looked into reshaping America's stance on torture [June 21]. Torture is torture. Period. Honor is honor. Period. There are no shades of gray. If the U.S. wishes to hold itself up as the light of freedom and civil...
MOLDOVA Language Protest The streets of the capital Chisinau thronged with demonstrators demanding the resignation of communist President Vladimir Voronin and new parliamentary elections. The protests were sparked in January by the re-introduction of compulsory Russian-language lessons in a country where most of the population speaks Romanian. The demonstrations grew after the disappearance, in suspicious circumstances, of opposition journalist and Parliament deputy Vlad Cubreacov...
...Chisinau Moldova's Communist Party scored a surprise comeback in parliamentary elections. Led by Vladimir Voronin, the Communists won nearly 51% of the vote and will command a majority in the legislature. Voronin lost no time in signaling that he would strengthen ties with Russia. The Communist triumph was a bitter setback for Prime Minister Dumitru Braghis, whose centrist coalition won only 13.5% of the vote...