Moldovan released after 15 years
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A political prisoner who was jailed for 15 years on charges of terrorism in Moldova's separatist state of Trans-Dniester was released Saturday after serving his term.
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CHISINAU, Moldova - The chairman of a Moldovan soccer team became so incensed when a penalty kick was awarded to the opponent that he drove his car onto the field and tried to run over the referee.  No one was hurt, and the game was called off.
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The situation in the Dniester Region following the dispute over Moldovan schools that use the Latin alphabet in the instruction process is returning to normal, Moldova's Reintegration Minister Vasile Shova has ...
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Fifteen years ago, geography lessons were simple for young Europeans. They learned that the European Union's border ended at the Iron Curtain that separated East and West Germany for more than four decades.
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BUCHAREST, Sep 5 (IPS) - Moldova's Communist President has been trying  to make the country more independent from both Russia and  Romania. But Moscow's grip on the former Soviet republic  remains strong.
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Nearly 17 years after Romania's communist regime collapsed, the first of an estimated 1.3 million files amassed by its secret police are finally about to become public, and already the nation is convulsed by revelations of how citizens were forced into betraying friends and colleagues.
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Former Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune was released from jail Thursday, more than two years after his arrest on charges of orchestrating the killing of political opponents at the start of a rebellion that engulfed the country.
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BUCHAREST, Romania - A man who went to prison three years ago for claiming that he was robbed of Romania's biggest ever lottery prize has won a new lottery jackpot - this time for real.
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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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A man acquitted of murder 15 years ago admits his guilt after a legal change allows him to be retried.
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BUCHAREST, Jun 22 (IPS) - A Romanian triumph at the Cannes film festival this  year has revived painful memories for thousands of women.
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EVP Daniel S. Mariaschin, who served on the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania (ICHR) and recently joined it in presenting its conclusions to outgoing Romanian President Ion Iliescu, has ...
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Bulgaria in Brief: 22 September 2004, Wednesday. A Bulgarian woman was sentenced to 15 months in jail in Austria.
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The Romanian striker was dismissed for gross misconduct last month after he admitted taking the drug following a target test. The 25-year-old was later suspended by the Football Association for seven months, a ban which was later made worldwide by FIFA.
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The breakaway Trans-Dniester region of Moldova re-elects Russian-born Igor Smirnov as leader for another five years.
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After the dual destructions wrought by the Holocaust and communism, Eastern European Jewish communal life was little more than a memory 15 years ago.
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Oana Lungescu returns to her homeland Romania and takes stock of the changes since the fall of Ceausescu.