...Ion Marandici How does social media facilitate deliberation and collective remembering of past revolutions amid protests in democratizing contexts? To explore this question, I performed a qualitative and quantitative analysis of a unique archive of tweets posted during Moldova’s Twitter Revolution...

...Lucian N. Leustean In 2015, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church issued an unusual statement declaring that the arrival of refugees represented a “true invasion” in the region. One year later, during debates on Moldova’s presidential elections, the Orthodox Church endorsed the fake news that 30,000...

...Agnieszka Miarka The aim of the articler is to analyze and characterize the influence of the Russian Federation on the security of Moldova through cooperation with the nonrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR). My research hypothesis is that the Russian Federation, through its...

...Dragoș Dragoman; Sabina-Adina Luca The election of a Socialist and pro-Russian candidate in December 2016 as president of Moldova marks a new turn in Moldovan politics. This is in contrast with the pro-Western attitudes of the previous government. Political instability and changing international...

... the patron state may also affect elite’s perceptions of incumbent durability and their corresponding decisions. © 2013 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2013 The Regents of the University of California Transnistria Moldova de facto...

... Moldova Putin Medvedev Obama0967-067X/$ see front matter 2012 The Regent httpdx.doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2012.07.009Optimism and opportunity in Russian East European relations just a couple of years ago, especially with the Obama government s express desire to press the reset button with Moscow...

... Pridnestrovie (Transnistria) Moldova New-institutionalism Separatism de-facto states Moldova sioni se of owar es t that the possibility to access such opportunity structures is decisive for a collective action movement to succeed or to fail. When the Soviet regime s universalistic ideology began...

... regime, it is argued, provides interesting ground for exploring the mechanisms of democratization under an unfavorable choice of institutions and problematic external environment. Transnistria Moldova de facto states Democratization Hybrid regimes Post-Soviet space A key challenge...

...William E. Crowther; Irmina Matonyte This article assesses how the character of emerging legislative elites conforms to the broader patterns of post-communist social transformation by comparing Estonia, Lithuania and Moldova. We argue that the pace and direction of change among MPs has been...