Louis O’Neill

OSCE Ambassador and Head of Mission to Moldova from 2006 to 2008. A lawyer, he worked in the Office of Russian Affairs as the White House Fellow under Colin Powell.

Carrots and sticks in Moldova: Russian peacekeepers, big loans and the need for reforms

Moldova hosts the Summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States this week and hopes to have a better turnout than President Medvedev did in July, at the annual "summit-at-the-races&

By Louis O’Neill

/ 7 Oct 2009

Battle for Moldova’s political heart

Long before he became Serbian Foreign Minister, Vuk Draskovic was a journalist, novelist, and long-time anti-Milosevic politician. He spent many difficult years in the wilderness of opposition, campaigning all around

By Louis O’Neill

/ 16 Sep 2009

Note to Moldova: beware the Kiev trap!

Moldova's opposition leaders - flush from besting Europe's last governing Communist party in repeat parliamentary elections on July 29 - need to draw a prompt and

By Louis O’Neill

/ 10 Aug 2009

Moldova: new generation, new politics?

Boris Yeltsin knew a little something about obtaining power, retaining power and, ultimately, relinquishing power gracefully when the time had come. It was nineteen years ago this month at the

By Louis O’Neill

/ 21 Jul 2009

Stiffening Moldova's judiciary

Interesting things are afoot in the Republic of Moldova, where a freely elected communist leader who is constitutionally barred from another term after eight years as President nonetheless recently held

By Louis O’Neill

/ 29 Jun 2009

Moldova: recession hits a frozen conflict

There will be no revolution in Moldova, but the worldwide wave of economic pain has officially hit what is technically the poorest country in Europe. And apparently right on schedule.

By Louis O’Neill

/ 12 May 2009