Despite repression, Moldova’s Red Bloc will keep fighting

Plahotniuc to the pillory! Since the start of the peaceful anti-oligarchic protests in 2015, launched by the party “Our Home is Moldova” (Red Bloc) and personally by Grigory Petrenko, there has been an explosion of information revealing corruption schemes, networks of cronyism and nepotism in the work of public services and facilities controlled by the […]

Moldova: Court, prosecutor conspire to keep political prisoners behind bars

December 7: All arguments of the Petrenko group’s lawyers were rejected by the judges in the Riscani district court of the capital, who even refused even a demand to immediately begin consideration of the merits of the case against them. Those present at the hearing noted the bias of the judges, who took only the […]

A second front in the battle for Donbass

By Victor Shapinov The economics and politics of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LC) retain the influence of oligarchic clans formed back in Ukrainian times. This creates a serious threat to the state-building of therepublic and to its very existence, and impedes opportunities for the gradual integration of the LC in the common economic space of […]

Statement of Lugansk Communists: ‘Simonenko, stop scoffing at the party!’

On November 27, 2015, the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU) decided to dismiss First Secretary of the Lugansk Regional Committee of the Communist Party Spiridon Kilinkarov, and to propose to the Central Committee plenum to dissolve the Lugansk Regional Committee and remove from membership all members of the […]