Moldovan Deputy Prime Minister Iurie Leanca said this week that eventually the former Soviet territory will leave the Commonwealth of Independent States and join the European Union. He suggested an application will be submitted to join the bloc by 2019. “Leanca’s statement came after five opposition Liberal Party lawmakers put…
Image by government.ru “Kyrgyz election officials say preliminary results from Kyrgyzstan’s presidential vote indicate that Sooronbai Jeenbekov, a political ally of incumbent President Almazbek Atambaev, has won more than 54 percent of the vote, appearing to negate the need for a second-round runoff,” reported RFERL. Eleven candidates were in the…
It seems the spectacle of the U.S. election and alleged ‘Russian meddling’ has gone viral. Today, Kyrgyzstan made a formal complaint to the Kazakh ambassador alleging ‘interference’ in the upcoming Kyrgyz October election. The offense was a meeting between Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and opposition candidate Omurbek Babanov. “In an…
Image by Mac9 The governments of Moldova and Belarus will hold talks to commemorate 25 years of relations in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, in November of this year. The matter was discussed at a meeting between Belarus’ Ambassador to Moldova Sergei Chichuk and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and…
Image by TUBS The Armenian Special Investigative Service (SIS) has cleared the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) of any wrongdoing regarding allegations of election fraud by an opposition party in recent municiple elections. “On the eve of the May 14 elections, the Yelk bloc claimed to have found in a…
The jury is still out about China’s One Belt One Road development project. But Kazakhstan isn’t too worried. If there is one country in Eurasia, if not the world, that is more gung-ho about the new Silk Road to Europe, it’s these guys. Should the government play its hand right,…