[Click to expand, or go to the original source to see the image at full size]First, for all you English-only types, here's the NYT's latest report on the goings-on in Chisinau.
The following is just a selection of the Russian-language media's coverage of the situation in Moldova. For more coverage, visit Yandex's news aggregator or Russian-language Google News.
Above is RIA Novosti's map of the protests which unfolded on Monday and Tuesday. All of their coverage of the story can be found here.
RIA Novosti also has some stories about the events in English, reporting most recently that President Voronin has blamed Romania for the demonstrations, which he referred to as an attempted coup, he has expelled the Romanian ambassador and established a visa regime with Moldova's neighbor.
The BBC's Russian Service reports that Voronin also accused "the wealthiest sponsors" of the unrest of having already fled the country. Presumably he is referring to the Moldovan opposition's local backers in the business community. There's an active debate underway in the BBC's forum on the subject.
Lenta.ru's coverage of the story can be found here, I'll highlight this article as worth checking out for its bizarreness - the Eurasian Youth Union has apparently criticized Voronin for being unable to contain the protests and suggested that he should have used Vlad-the-Impaler-type methods instead.
Kommersant also reports on the introduction of a visa regime with Romania and has a story on the protests headlined "The First Anti-Communist [War]." Kommersant also has some video posted:
Gazeta.ru has a story suggesting things have quieted down in Chisinau and an interview with opposition leader Mihai Ghimpu in which he blames the authorities for yesterday's violence, disavows the seizure of government buildings and claims that the police "opened the door" and let protesters in.
Ezhednevnyi Zhurnal's Sergei Buntman has a commentary piece that compares the Moldovan protesters unfavorably to Ukraine's Orange Revolutionaries and suggests that their actions more closely resemble the riots in Moscow in 2002 which were occasioned by Russia's loss to Japan in a soccer match. He also draws a parallel to the violent overthrow of Ceausescu in 1989, remarking that the protests in Chisinau are "fanatical and very Romanian" in more ways than one.
NTV reports protesters downtown again on Wednesday (see here for the text of their report):
2 comments:
Kudos for your coverage, Lyndon! In a post in his blog Sean writes about the great job you are doing. He's right. -- Kolya
Kolya, thanks, I appreciate the kind words from you and Sean.
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