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U.S. Ambassador to Moldova Heather Hodges said she doubts that the republic's 2005 parliamentary elections will be fair and free if the state broadcaster continues its current pro-government bias.
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The European Union agreed on Monday to send a mission to help train local police in Afghanistan, whose government is struggling with an Islamist insurgency.
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The situation in the Dniester region requires the immediate intervention of the international community, special envoy of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Piotr Stoyanov said in ...
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Mediators in the Transdniestrian settlement from Russia, Ukraine and the OSCE will meet in Vienna on December 14-15 to discuss a set of initiatives, Measures to strengthen trust and security in Moldova, ...
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Politics: 18 September 2004, Saturday. While discussing ideas for providing humanitarian help to crisis-vulnerable regions in the Caucasus through the OSCE, the first diplomats of Bulgaria and Russia talked the ...
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Voters in Moldova's breakaway Trans-Dniester region back a plan to unite with Russia, officials say.
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Members of the Monitoring Commission of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, rapporteurs on Moldova Josette Durrieu and Andre Kvakkestad, are arriving in Chisinau on a three day visit on Monday ...
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(InfoWorld) - Two months after much of Estonia's online infrastructure wasÂ targeted by an online attack, the U.S government is sending cyberinvestigators to help the Baltic state better understand what happened. A representative from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's US-CERT (U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team) division is heading to Estonia this week to help analyze the large volume of data that was generated by the attacks, said Gregory Garcia, assistant secretary for cyber security and telecommunications with the DHS. "We are sending someone from our organization ... to help them with forensic analysis and to do some additional training on how to secure their infrastructure," he said. Additionally, a member of the U.S. Secret Service will be there to help with training on incident response and computer crime investigations, according to a DHS spokesman. In April, a widespread DDOS attack struck Estonia and affected government and banking Web sites. Early press reports linked the attacks to Russia, exacerbating tensions between the two countries, but investigators now say thatÂ it is unclear who exactly was behind the incident. "The data that we have does not speak to who's behind it. There's no smoking gun," said Jose Nazario, senior security engineer with Arbor Networks, who has studied the attacks. Unlike other Internet conflicts, the Estonian attacks do not seem to have been backed by a particular hacking group, said Gadi Evron, a security evangelist with Beyond Security. "They were of immense variety [and came] from the population of the Russian-speaking blogosphere," he said. Some attackers ran simple scripts on their PCs, while others trained sophisticated groups of botnet computers at the Estonian systems, Evron said. "Many of the attacks were from fake sources and compromised computers around the world," he added. During the incident, several international organizations helped the tiny country repel the online attacks, Garcia said. "This was -- at least in the aftermath -- a good news story in the sense that Estonia looked to NATO for assistance and together the NATO countries came to the aid of Estonia," Garcia said. "It showed that the relationships we have internationally and across the federal government are paying off so we can respond in real time to attacks that are happening." Garcia said that members of US-CERT could learn how the U.S. should respond if faced with a similar attack. "It's a little bit more complicated than conventional warfare," he said. "It's a little difficult to trace back where a particular attack is coming from, which makes it more difficult to respond." Arbor Networks' Nazario agreed that investigators will get a much clearer picture of how the attacks evolved over time. "They can basically learn what ... technologies and what techniques worked under those attacks," he said.
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President of Moldova Vladimir Voronin sees the reason for deterioration of Russian-Moldavian relations in different approaches to the solution of the Transdniestria region - a Moldova territory with ...
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The European Union on Friday called on the United States to respect international law in its handling of terror suspects after President Bush acknowledged his country had operated secret prisons abroad.
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Parliamentary elections are due in Moldova on March 6, 2005. In the wake of the battle for Ukraine, the export of the orange revolution to Moldova tops the political agenda of Europe s poorest nation.
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The European Union will dispatch an antiterrorism cooperation coordinator to Russia, said Bernard Bot, foreign minister of the Netherlands (chair of the EU), at a press conference in The Hague.
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Papers discuss the crisis in South Ossetia, Czech foreign policy and Americans' heightened interest in foreign affairs
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PRAGUE, Jan 21 (IPS) - U.S. diplomatic and business representatives have  stepped up their lobbying activities to secure a deal for the  construction of a military base in Central-Eastern Europe ahead  of the U.S. presidential vote.
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Officials of Moldova and its breakaway Trans-Dniester Republic began Monday two-day consultations near Bulgaria's Black Sea port of Varna, the Focus news agency said.
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The United States said it expected  European countries to come up with offers of help in Iraq and  Afghanistan at a NATO meeting on Thursday to discuss the  alliance's role in the insurgency-hit countries.
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A glance at Chechnya and its conflict: