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...MOLDOVA Long fight over Moscow-backed breakaway territory Transdniestria...
...controlling interest in a major bank in 2005), Olmert needs help. Lieberman brings with him 11 seats in the Knesset, along with the party's constituency, a large bloc of the roughly 1 million immigrants from former Soviet republics now living in Israel. (Lieberman himself was born in Moldova.) That raises the Olmert coalition's majority to 78 out of the Knesset's 120 seats, compensating, perhaps, for a steep postwar decline in his public support, and girding him for the traditionally tempestuous forthcoming budget debates, which have been known to bring down governments. In return, Lieberman gets the title...
...contrast Gandhi and Singh cut with the typical Indian politician is striking. India regularly comes in the bottom half of Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, tied with Moldova and Mali at 88th out of 158 countries last year. This January, in its Mood of the Nation issue, the weekly newsmagazine India Today found less than half of those surveyed expressed any trust in their MPs. So low is India's opinion of its political leaders, in fact, that a new college, the M.I.T. School of Government, opened last September in the central city of Pune with...
...Illarionov: By using economic weapons-particularly, energy as a weapon-RAO UES bought a power station in the Transdniester Republic (a breakaway Moldova province, very much under Moscow's influence), and then cut off Moldova from this key power supplier, until Moldova met its terms. Transneft (Russia's state-owned oil pipe monopoly), blocked oil flowing from Kazakhstann to Lithuania, because Russia coveted Lithuania's oil refinery. The latest such case is abruptly raising natural gas prices fourfold for Ukraine...
...comments that seemed bound to irk Putin, whom Bush visited on Sunday as part of his European trip, the president called for free elections in Belarus, whose president, Aleksandr Lukashenko, is among Putin’s remaining friends in Eastern Europe, where former Soviet republics, such as Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia, are turning westward in increasing numbers...