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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The late communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was deceived by his advisers and still believed Romanians adored him hours before his overthrow, his only surviving child said i
Dec. 24, 2009
The state secretary of the Union State of Belarus and Russia Pavel Borodin on Friday argued that a new Soviet Union is likely to come into being by 2017 as the result of the emergent customs union of
Dec. 18, 2009
Chisinau, December 17 (Interfax) – Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat has ordered that barbed wire on the Moldovan-Romanian border be removed.
Dec. 17, 2009
BRUSSELS, Dec 11 (Reuters) – European leaders pledged onDec. 11to give 2.4 billion euros ($3.5 billion) each year to developing countries over the next three years to try to win their support for a cl
Dec. 11, 2009
WARSAW, Poland — Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland’s last communist leader, is denying that he asked for Soviet military intervention against the Solidarity freedom movement in 1981.
Dec. 9, 2009
MINSK, June 6 (Reuters) – Russia has banned the import of 500 types of milk product from Belarus, Russian news agencies reported on Saturday, at a time of strain between the two former Soviet republic
Jun. 6, 2009
CHISINAU, (Reuters) – Parliament in Moldova, an ex-Soviet state jolted by political protests last month, said on Wednesday it would hold a presidential election on May 20.
May. 13, 2009
April 14 (Reuters) – Following are five facts about John Demjanjuk, who was taken from his home in Ohio on Tuesday to stand trial in Germany, accused of being a Nazi death camp guard.
Apr. 14, 2009
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) – President Traian Basescu said Friday that Romania supports having Albania, Macedonia and Croatia join NATO. Basescu made the comment after meeting NATO’S secretary general mo
Jan. 14, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) – The State Department said on Thursday a government decision to change the spelling of Ukraine’s capital to Kyiv from Kiev had nothing to do with politics. “I don’t think this decisio
Oct. 20, 2006
(AP) – Ukraine’s military experts say that the blast that killed eight Ukrainian troops in Iraq earlier this month was a terrorist act, an official said Jan. 21. The investigators tasked with looking
Jan. 21, 2005