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- Rabbi attacked, robbed in Moldova
Rabbi Israel Livshits, leader of the Jewish community at the cultural and religious centre in Chisinau, has been attacked and robbed. 'I have no doubts that the attack had anti-Semitic character,' the rabbi told local television. The incident took place
- Moldovan ministry says airport bomb threat hoax
Reports about Chisinau airport being mined have turned out to be a hoax, the press secretary of the Interior Ministry, Ala Meleca, has said. Meleca said sappers had checked the building, which 'a phone terrorist' had threatened to blow up, but found
- Moldovan NGOs March Against Police Abuse, Torture
Activists from several Moldovan human rights groups have held a march in downtown Chisinau to protest police brutality which, they say, in many cases amounts to torture, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. Members of Amnesty International's Moldovan
- Moldovan separatists reject talks with ex-Soviet leaders
CHISINAU: Moldova's separatist Transdniestria region yesterday rejected a call from mediators to resume talks with the ex-Soviet state's leaders and accused them of trying to impose new trade constraints. Igor Smirnov, the region's self-styled president,
- Equest in breach at Moldova Mall
Equest Balkan Properties, the AIM-listed investor in the Balkans, has breached the financial covenants at its Moldova Mall and has begun discussions with its lender, Bank Austria, to relinquish ownership voluntarily Its results for 2008 showed a 38%
- Moldova: grain yield totals nearly 30 c/ha
Agricultural economies of Moldova have to harvest the crop throughout the are of 526.8 thsd ha, inckluding 311 thsd ha of wheat on a tight schedule, declared Anatoliy Spivachenko, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry of the Republic of
- Rabbi and Students Brutally Attacked in Moldova
(IsraelNN.com) A leading Moldovian community rabbi and his students were violently attacked Thursday by a gang of anti-Semites while on a camping and fishing trip in Panasesti, located in the Chisinau region of Moldova. Panesesti is a thickly wooded
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Formerly ruled by Romania, Moldova became part of the Soviet Union at the close of World War II. Although independent from the USSR since 1991, Russian forces have remained on Moldovan territory east of the Nistru (Dnister) River supporting the Slavic majority population (mostly Ukrainians and Russians) who have proclaimed a "Transnistria" republic.
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