A new postage stamp adorned with the portrait of the increasingly unpopular president has sparked mixed feelings among Moldovans, not least embarrassment.
"Slobo, save Serbia," groups of youths could be heard chanting in the streets of Belgrade in September 2000. "Kill yourself!"
A court in Belarus has sentenced a critic of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka who had already served a year and a half in jail to an additional 18 months of confinement.
The European Union has lifted border controls in nine of its newest members. But for post-Soviet neighbors just to the east, the system may feel like a new Iron Curtain.
Parliament confirms Yulia Tymoshenko as prime minister three years after her brief first term in office. But her renewed partnership with President Yushchenko is precarious at best.
Chisinau is rocked by a bitter feud between the country's communist president and the city's pro-Western mayor. At the heart of the debate, a divisive question: When should the Christmas tree go up?
A Belarusian activist has told RFE/RL that his beating by police during a December 12 demonstration in Minsk is linked to his recent trip to Washington, where he met with the U.S. president and testified before a Congressional commission.
A Minsk court this week began hearing a defamation case that could result in the closure of one of the last independent newspapers in Belarus.
Nineteen-year-old Zmitser Fedaruk, one of the youngest faces of the Belarusian opposition, has been hospitalized in serious condition after being severely beaten by riot police during a peaceful demonstration in the capital, Minsk.
December 5, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Ukraine's outgoing government has agreed to a significant price hike in a deal for supplies of natural gas from Russia, sparking an immediate denunciation from the incoming prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko.
Ukraine is marking the 75th anniversary of the start of the Great Famine, which killed millions in 1932-33. While Ukrainians say the famine should be recognized as genocide, Russia has accused Kyiv of "unilaterally distorting history."
The Rose and Orange revolutions ushered in a wave of optimism that Western-style democracy would take root. But in Georgia and Ukraine, high hopes and great expectations have been replaced with apprehension.
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