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Friday, January 22, 2016

Political Crisis Comes to Moldova

By Erin Mundahl

On Wednesday night, hundreds of protestors broke through police lines and flooded into the Moldovan parliamentary building after the announcement that Pavel Filip, deputy chairman of the ruling Democratic Party and the minister of technology and communication, had been voted prime minister.  Outside the parliamentary building, crowds yelled “cancel the vote!" and "thieves!"
Police used tear gas to try to control the crowd and successfully pushed the protestors out of the building once, before they managed to break in a second time. Video clips by Russian media show crowds tussling with police officers and yelling chants calling for early elections.....


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