RFE/RL BELARUS, UKRAINE, AND MOLDOVA REPORT
12/6/2011 7:23:31 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
 Belarusian Slams Care Package Failure A Belarusian opposition party official has filed a formal complaint with prison officials for failing to deliver a care package to a jailed Belarusian activist. More  Belarus Activist's 'Flag Trials' Postponed Two trials against a well-known Belarusian activist for displaying a pre-Lukashenka-era national flag have been postponed in the eastern city of Vitsebsk. More  Belarusian Poet In Trouble Over 'Samizdat' Newspaper A poet in northwestern Belarus is in hot water over a "samizdat" newspaper he edits. More  Minsk Mother Appeals For Son's Life The mother of one of the two men condemned to death in Belarus over a deadly subway bombing has formally appealed to President Alyaksandr Lukashenka to spare her son's life. More  Survey Finds Endemic Corruption Corruption in politics and the public sector has become increasingly entrenched in the world, helping to fuel a year of unprecedented protest. That's according to the latest report from the watchdog group Transparency International, which tracks perceived levels of corruption in 182 nations. More  Minsk Bombers Given Death Sentences A court in Belarus has convicted two defendants and sentenced them to death for carrying out a Minsk subway bombing that killed 15 people and injured hundreds of others on April 11. More  Belarusian Authorities Scupper Yet Another Symbolic Protest BARANAVICHY, Belarus -- Riding a bike is out. So is clapping. Now a Belarusian opposition activist has been banned from breathing deeply as a form of protest. More  New Date For Moldova President Vote Moldova's parliament has set December 16 as the date for its second attempt in less than a month to pick a president and thus end more than two years of leadership crisis. More  Clinton: Ex-Soviet Nations Need Reforms U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has pushed for greater democratic reforms and respect for human rights in former Soviet republics -- criticizing Russia for a parliamentary election she says was rigged. More  Tymoshenko 'More Powerful In Jail' Ukraine's first president, Leonid Kravchuk, says jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's political popularity is stronger now since she was sentenced. More  Tatar Leader: Ukraine's Tatars Won't Attend New Kyiv Mosque A leader of the Tatar minority in Ukraine says he does not expect ethnic Tatars to attend a newly opened mosque that is the largest in Kyiv. More  Fall Of The U.S.S.R.: The View From The Other White House As the Soviet Union careened toward collapse in 1991, no country was watching the unfolding events more closely than the United States. Washington had no control over events and didn't know whether the outcome would help or hurt U.S. national interests. More  Tymoshenko 'Needs Surgery' Former Health Minister Mykola Polischuk says that he has examined the X-rays and medical notes taken during Tymoshenko's medical examination last week at a Kyiv regional hospital. More  Chornobyl Hunger Strikers In Kyiv Nineteen veterans of the post-Chornobyl nuclear disaster cleanup have continued their hunger strike in front of the Ukrainian government building in Kyiv. More The biggest mosque in Kyiv has officially opened 17 years after construction began. More |
