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The rhetoric of the new Moldovan government is not music to the Kremlin's ears. However the powers that be in Chishinau have no choice. Immediately after the present summit of the Community of Independent States, the government has to move ahead with the hard work of serious reform of the economy, judiciary, media and bureaucracy.

Moldova's long-ruling communists, having recently been dethroned by the four-party Alliance for European Integration (AEI), are struggling to win back lost ground. The frantic activities of communist ex-President Voronin suggest he is not finding democracy easy

The dynamics of misrule in Russia's Caucasus are consuming Chechnya's neighbour

In August 2008 oD/Russia's editor was in Georgia.  He interviewed Mikheil Saakashvili, as it happens just twenty hours before the war with Russia broke out.  Zygmunt was assured by the President that there were no plans for military action, but later that night he felt very sure that the war could begin at any moment.

An open letter to President Obama is caught in nostalgia and fails to address emerging global realities.

Human Rights Watch today publishes a report What Your Children Do Will Touch Upon You, a study of punitive house burning by the authorities in Chechnya.  In this summary Tanya Lokshina documents how family property is burnt down and lives destroyed in attempts to force alleged insurgents to surrender.