If you're looking to follow developments in Chisinau, some of the pages I've linked to in previous posts are still being updated on an ongoing basis. This post is to provide an update on things I missed earlier or which have just been posted in the couple of hours since my last post.
First, although it's not perfect, Technorati is not a bad way to follow blog coverage of the situation in Moldova.
Next, I should highlight a couple of reports that there has been gunfire in the city center - one from Dumitru Minzarari (who has also posted a number of further updates including photos and questions about who actually instigated the violence, as well as a further post linking to other coverage elsewhere) and another from curaj.net.
The NYT's blog The Lede has a post focused around the role of Twitter in the protests, which features an interview with Moldovan blogger Mihai Moscovici. And the online NYT headlines its story on Tuesday's events "Violent Protests Erupt in Moldova."
Kosmopolito has the second installation of its Moldovan correspondent's report from Chisinau.
And, last but not least, reminding us that Americans are great at jumping into other people's battles armed with all of the necessary informational technology but sometimes bereft of elementary information, is a post on Foreign Policy's Passport blog, which rather shockingly observes that "In fact, since Moldova declared independence in 1990 the PCRM [Moldovan Communist Party] has never relinquished power." This is, um, totally wrong.
Apparently the author of the post has not consulted Dmitry Furman's outstanding article, "Surprising Moldova," which notes that the country has transferred power peacefully
multiple times in the post-Soviet period, not to mention Wikipedia, which also points this out. Just a little reminder that we should all exercise humility when making pronouncements about issues on which we might not be fully informed.
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