 RFE/RL Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova Report 5/11/2010 7:12:53 PM A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova. For more stories on Eastern Europe, please visit and bookmark our Eastern Europe page . |
| Belarus  Belarus Seeks To Control Graduations Education officials say that upcoming high school graduation ceremonies and celebrations in the eastern Belarusian city of Mahileu will be closely monitored by police, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports. More  OSCE Denounces Pressure On Media In Belarus The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, today expressed concern about recent reports of pressure against independent media in Belarus. More  Voronin Accused Of Abuse Of Power A special committee set up by the Moldovan parliament has accused former President Vladimir Voronin of exceeding his constitutional powers by giving police direct orders. More  Wife Of Jailed Transdniester Journalist Worried About His Condition The wife of imprisoned independent journalist Ernest Vardanean says her husband looked tired and depressed after hours of interrogation while jailed in Moldova's separatist Transdniester region. More  Ukrainian TV Journalists Decry New 'Censorship' Journalists at two Ukrainian television stations say censorship is occurring again at the country's commercial TV stations. More  Eastern Partnership? Never Heard Of It European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso called it a “new start” in the EU’s relations with its Eastern neighbors. But one year after the signing in Prague of the Eastern Partnership with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, the European Union seems to have all but forgotten what was then touted as a landmark initiative. More  After Just A Year, Are Wheels Coming Off EU's Eastern Partnership? A year after its celebrated inception, the European Union's Eastern Partnership for Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan has sunk into the kind of obscurity that tends to envelop unloved EU projects. More  Ukrainian Communists Unveil Stalin Monument In Zaporizhzhya Communists in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya have unveiled a monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. More  (Downloadable) Russian War Games On April 29, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called on the country's computer game industry to boost its activity. More  Yushchenko Surprised At Speed Of Yanukovych Revamp In February, Viktor Yushchenko vacated the Ukrainian presidency after a single five-year term that was plagued by political infighting, mounting hostilities with Moscow, and a bitter fallout with Orange Revolution ally Yulia Tymoshenko. In his place is the man he bested in 2004, Viktor Yanukovych, who has moved with breathtaking speed to roll back many of Yushchenko's pro-Western reforms. More  The EU's Imperial Understretch While there is no question its gospel of reform is well-meant, the European Union seems utterly oblivious to the fundamental paradox at the heart of its neighborhood policy -- that what it does presupposes a stability that can only be secured by radically different means. More  For Yanukovych, A Fleet-Footed Dash To Repair Russia Divide Viktor Yanukovych may have been in office only two months, but the Ukrainian president is already moving at breathtaking speed to realign his country with Russia. More  Interview: Crimean Tatar Leader Attacks Ukraine's Black Sea Fleet Deal On April 27, the Russian and Ukrainian parliaments ratified an agreement to extend Russia's lease of the Crimean port of Sevastopol for its Black Sea Fleet until 2042. Mustafa Dzhemilev, chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars, spoke with RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service about the new Russian-Ukrainian deal. More |
