The Guardian - 02-Mar-2011
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The Guardian - 28-Feb-2011
s £8.4bn international development budget will herald the end of aid to Russia, Serbia, China, Cambodia, Vietnam and Moldova. Aid to Yemen, regarded by Britain as a failing state whose lack of economic development provides a fertile recruiting ground for al-Qaida, will instead be doubled from £46.7m this year to £90m by 2015. The changes will be announced by Andrew Mitchell, the international development...
The Guardian - 21-Dec-2010
s hardline regime detains hundreds after election protests as international monitors condemn Belarus poll A Belarusian presidential candidate was dragged from his hospital bed and arrested today, just hours after police beat him and other protesters who rallied against an allegedly rigged election victory for the hardline leader, Alexander Lukashenko. Men thought to be security agents carried candidate...
The Guardian - 02-Dec-2010
s dacha at Condrita. In this one-on-one session, the Acting President had repeated his earlier proposal (Ref A) for forming a government with Voronin as Speaker, Lupu as President, and (current Prime Minister) Greceanii as PM. Lupu rejected the proposal, repeating his earlier explanation that this scenario would be bad for his party. Lupu said Voronin asked whether others, such as the American Ambassador,...
The Guardian - 02-Dec-2010
s president offered a $10m (£6.4m)bribe in a desperate bid to keep his defeated communist government in power, according to a secret US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks. Vladimir Voronin made the offer to rival Marian Lupu on 7 September 2009 after parliamentary elections that July, in which Voronin's ruling communists narrowly lost to a coalition of pro-EU opposition parties. During private...
The Guardian - 21-Nov-2010
s annual summit with Ukraine (on 22 November) is likely to showcase this failure. The summit comes at an auspicious time, as the EU reviews its European Neighbourhood Policy (launched in 2004) and the Eastern Partnership (launched in 2009), ahead of a second grand summit in Budapest under the Hungarian EU presidency in next May. But France has dragged its feet on easing visa requirements for Ukrainians,...