RFE/RL BELARUS, UKRAINE, AND MOLDOVA REPORT
23.09.2014
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
Police Search Belarusian Activists' Homes For 'Pornography' Belarusian police have searched apartments linked to members of the opposition Malady Front (Youth Front). More  'Disappeared' In Belarus Remembered A dozen protesters gathered near the Belarusian Embassy in Washington on September 16 to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the disappearance of two critics of Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka. More Moldovan Court Rejects Referendum On Direct Presidential Poll Moldova's Constitutional Court has rejected a plan to hold a referendum to decide whether the president should be elected by popular vote rather than by parliament. More Moldova's opposition Socialist Party has said it is "deeply outraged" by Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta's statement about his intention to pursue the reunification of Romania with Moldova. More  Delegates To UN Conference Claim Harassment By Kremlin Members of ethnic minority groups from Russia have accused the Kremlin of preventing them from attending a United Nations conference in New York this week. More  Kyiv To Withdraw Heavy Weapons Kyiv says Ukrainian government forces are preparing to withdraw artillery and heavy armored vehicles within a proposed 30-kilometer buffer zone. More  Crimean Leader Says Mejlis Does Not Exist Crimea's Russian-backed leader, Sergei Aksyonov, says the self-governing body of the peninsula's Crimean Tatar community, the Mejlis (Assembly), does not exist. More  Thousands March Against War In Moscow, St. Petersburg Moscow has seen its largest opposition protest since President Vladimir Putin's inauguration to a third presidential term in May 2012. More  Donetsk Separatist 'Minister' Says Schools To Adopt Russian Program Separatist rebels in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region plan to introduce the Russian curriculum into schools under their control. More Attacks On Crimean Tatar Community Continue A Crimean Tatar scholar says masked assailants dragged him from his car and took his passport in an attack meant to prevent him from attending a UN conference in New York. More  Poroshenko Addresses U.S. Congress, Asks For Military Aid, Special Security Status Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has asked a joint session of the U.S. Congress for military aid and to confer a special security status upon Ukraine. More  Crimean Tatars' Assembly Seized The building of the Crimea Tatars' self-governing body, the Mejlis, has been impounded by Russia's Federal Bailiffs Service. More  Ukraine's Cryptic, Clever (And Always Insulting) Lexicon Of War As the conflict simmers in eastern Ukraine, supporters from both camps fight on in a war of words. The result is a torrent of new slurs -- often cryptic, at times inventive, always insulting. Here are some of the most common terms. More |
