UK sanctions pro-Russia network in Moldova over election interference
Britain on Wednesday sanctioned what it described as a pro-Russian group responsible for trying to rig a referendum in ...
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Surviving a Political Dark Age
The news of Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest surprised me. It’s not that I doubted the former leader of the Philippines was guilty of ...
Romanian hard-right leader Simion leads opinion poll before election
Hard-right opposition leader George Simion led an opinion poll published on Monday, five weeks before the first round of a ...
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Two sovereignist candidates top presidential poll in Romania, governing coalition's candidate in fourth
Two sovereignist candidates, namely the leader of the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), George Simion, and ...
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Romania’s media watchdog under fire after removing video claiming Călin Georgescu's election ban equates coup d'état
The National Audiovisual Council (CNA), which governs TV and media in Romania, has recently come under fire after it issued ...
What will happen now with Romania’s elections?
In November, a far right, pro-Russia figure came from almost nowhere to become favourite for the presidency. Calin Georgescu, with no affiliated political party and whose campaign had been largely on ...
Thousands protest cancelled Romanian election ahead of repeat vote
Thousands of Romanians gathered in the capital Bucharest on Wednesday to protest the December cancellation of a presidential election and the banning of its far-right frontrunner from standing for ...