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The year 2021 will be different from the previous one, but insufficient to compensate for the losses. Most of the political, socio-economic and geopolitical processes that characterize the Eastern Partnership states will perpetuate. Based on the complications and the progress achieved a year ago in the region, a series of developments can emerge in 2021 (IPN, December 2020). Each of the six Eastern Partnership countries will face individual challenges, many of which are deductible from the ongoing political-strategic and socio-economic processes. Besides, there are common trends that can synchronize at the (semi-) regional level. From here, the forecasts related to…

Author: Dionis Cenușa ”The year 2020 has revealed the many weaknesses of the Eastern Partnership region. The pandemic has become the most unpredictable exogenous factor, which has complicated the operating conditions not only for the economies of the six states but also for their political systems…” The Eastern Partnership space went through difficult times during 2020. Several situation towers have profoundly changed the image and democratic perspectives of some states in the region. Following the national elections in the Northern Group of the Partnership, the old elites’ status quo, whose existence is due to an authoritarian system or various sources…

Assessing the events that happened in the state security sector of the Republic of Moldova in 2020, general-major in reserve of the Security and Intelligence Service (SIS) Valentin Dediu said the year was marred by the worsening of the security environment and the appearance of new risks and threats in addition to those existing earlier. “It should be noted that since the declaring of independence until present, the Republic of Moldova and its citizens have been under the pressure of the “hybrid war” waged by the Russian Federation to prevent the national authorities from dealing with the risks and threats…

Alexandru Flenchea said the year 2020 in the reintegration sector witnessed considerable political turbulence in Chisinau and this affected considerably the authorities’ capacity to take coherent actions to resolve the Transnistrian conflict. The main challenge of the year was the self-isolation of the Transnistrian region and the obstruction of the freedom of movement over the Nistru, which affected directly hundreds of thousands of people. “If I tried to see the full part of the glass in this dramatic involution, I would probably say, for the first time after 1992, that there is no person who wouldn’t have understood that the…

Author: Victor Pelin “The last redoubt against the subversive actions of Igor Dodon, assisted by the new PSRM-Shor Party majority, is the Constitutional Court and the active citizens who are ready to protest against the plans of the oligarchic clans that became stronger under the auspices of the new parliamentary majority…” Actions taken to successor’s detriment Together with the expiry of the mandate of President Igor Dodon, a question about the inheritance left by him to his successor Maia Sandu appears. Apart from the triumphalist report full of figures about the promulgated laws, signed decrees and conferred awards, we do not really have…

Author: Victor Pelin “Furthermore, it is necessary to make and adopt a special law on the presidential administration’s activity that would develop constitutional norms concerning the powers and activity of the President and would exclude the arbitrary transfer, for opportunist reasons, of the most important state institutions under the control of other institutions…” — Exclusivism of alleged statesman Incumbent President Igor Dodon intends to leave office together with the few powers enjoyed by the Head of State. He had to lose the elections so as to change his attitude to the role and powers that should be enjoyed by the President.…

The winner of the presidential election, the leader of the pro-European opposition and former Prime Minister Maia Sandu introduced taking Moldova out of external “isolation” in the list of immediate priorities of her term. Right after the win, Sandu met with the ambassadors of Romania, France or the USA in Chisinau. She held telephone conversations with the leaders of EU member states and the neighboring countries, as well as with the representatives of European institutions, before her actual inauguration in the office. She presented all these steps as the beginning of the exit from “coma” for the Moldovan foreign policy. The interpretation…

The geopolitical rhetoric is extremely visible in the Republic of Moldova. In the case of the presidential elections, this aspect is more conspicuous because there is only one candidate who is the focus of attention rather than the party or the multitude of people who represent this party, said IPN’s senior contributor Dionis Cenușa, a political scientist, researcher at the Institute of Political Sciences at Liebig-Justus University in Giessen. In the public debate „Presidential elections in the diaspora and geopolitics”, which was staged by IPN News Agency, Dionis Cenușa said we now have candidates who, according to the so-called notion of multi-vector foreign policy, prefer to…

Author: Victor Pelin “But before seeing what happens in the Eurasian Economic Union member states, we should clarify what we have here, in the Republic of Moldova – lackeys or sons of a bitch?” Charm of ordinary propagandists In our gloomy realities, we are lucky to have run-of-the-mill propagandists  who, by their activities, make us laugh and cheer up. One of these, who says that he is a superior teacher at the State Teacher-Training University “Ion Creangă”, the Philosophical and Socioeconomic Sciences Department, delights us by his public performance. But the joy turns into sadness when we think what can happen to the students who…

Author: Dions Cenușa The spread of instability in the eastern neighborhood of the European Union (EU) imposes on it the responsibilities of a geopolitical firefighter, who, however, does not have adequate equipment or authority. The mission of crisis management is complicated by several conditions. On the one hand, crises tend to synchronize and therefore require the potential for a concomitant reaction. However, the destabilizing political situation in Belarus overlaps with the complete unfreezing of the conflict around Nagorno Karabakh. The genealogical features of these crises, on the other hand, drastically reduce the real ability of the European institutions to locate quick and…