... Sandu).
Along with other leaders of the pro-European coalition he is responsible for the systemic crisis in the country, which objectively weakens his electoral chances.
It has to be said that the Constitutional Court decision to reintroduce direct elections of the President was passed on 4th March in the wake of the March 2 visit to Chisinau by assistant US Secretary of State B. Brink; just like the government of Pavel Filip was hastily approved on 20 January 2016 after the visit to Romania by ...
President of the Russian International Affairs Council and former Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov has expressed a hope that Washington's policy on Syria will change after the US presidential election.
"In recent months, we can see that US diplomacy is controlled by internal political battles and its decisions are primarily motivated by the results of the upcoming election. The most obvious manifestation of this policy is the approach to the Syrian conflict. Hopefully after the election, the situation...
The parliamentary elections that took place in Georgia on October 8, 2016
served as a multidimensional political test. The Georgian Dream party, which has “slimmed down” in the political sense (four years ago it was part of a coalition), now operates as a single ...
Spain has been without a permanent government since December 2015, when the parliamentary elections failed to produce a consensus among the parties on the formation of a new cabinet — a scenario that was repeated in June following the pre-term general election. The political deadlock demoralizes society and negatively affects the country’s ...
... European and Russian universities
held a round table “Prospects for Russia-West relations”.
The discussion covered the prospects for development of Russia-EU-US relations following Brexit, the presidential election in the United States, and the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
The discussion was attended by experts from the US, the EU, and Russia, as well as by RIAC members.
The participants included: Thomas Graham, Professor at Yale University; Desmond Browne, former ...
American Presidential elections are approaching in November, and are getting more attention than normal this year because of two unusually high profile and controversial candidates: Hillary Clinton (Democrat) and Donald Trump (Republican). Polls as of mid-September suggest ...
The Berlin state election – the fifth and final election of the calendar year in Germany – was held on September 18. In terms of party-political processes, the results are particularly intriguing, especially given the upcoming elections to the lower house of the German parliament (the Bundestag) to be held later this month.
Main Results
The Social Democratic Party of Germany won the majority of the votes (21.6 %, down by 6.7 % from 2011), followed by the Christian Democratic ...
It is usually easier to achieve an agreement with experienced professionals
Less than four months remain before America elects its President; the dramatic struggle has entered its final phase. Judging by the latest polls, Hillary Clinton of the Democratic Party is well ahead of GOP’s Donald Trump. If no unforeseen circumstances interfere with the election campaign before November, we can expect that the forty fifth president of the United States of America – for the first time in its...
Early parliamentary elections held in Spain on June 26, 2016 largely repeated the situation of the December 2015 elections. The People’s Party failed to receive enough votes to form a new government. Six months did not bring the principal parties any closer to a compromise,...
Interview with Michael Tomasky
Michael Tomasky, Special Correspondent for
The Daily Beast
and Editor of
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
, shares his opinion on Donald Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s election campaigns, as well as his thoughts on the future of Russia-U.S. relations. Tomasky is the author of
Left for Dead: The Life, Death, and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America
(1996), and of
Hillary's Turn: Inside Her Improbable, Victorious Senate Campaign
(2001)...
