Moldova's Constitutional Court has upheld the results of a vote recount that confirmed the victory of the ruling Communist Party in the nation's April 5th parliamentary elections. The recount was initiated by the Communist Party of President Vladimir Voronin.

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By Yuri Zarakhovich

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For Russia, May 9 remains the Victory Day â€" this country's only meaningful national holiday, its most sacred and bitter anniversary and the one most cynically abused by the authorities in pursuit of their own aims.

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And it is the most bitter because Soviet policies had strengthened Hitler in the first place, allowing him to grab lands that were liberated only after four years of desperate combat, which cost the lives of some 27 million Soviet citizens.

Ellen Barry

MOSCOW -- Russian border guards on Saturday began taking up long-term positions along the boundaries of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, an arrangement that will probably mean sustained tension in the two breakaway Georgian territories.

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Taras Kuzio

POPULIST WRITERS IN RUSSIAN-RULED UKRAINE (LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY) (April 2009)

Overview of political events of the week

March 23