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A government decision to gift Moldovans three days off work next week is being seen as an attempt to blunt an opposition protest called for August 26.

August 27 and 31 are already public holidays, but a government initiative to declare the rest of the week off amounts to an invitation to Moldovans to head off on vacation, some political analysts say.

Turkey has a very intense agenda. The "court-appointed" castration of the Feza Group, two more newspapers and a news agency, along with magazines and a publishing company, has produced, all of a sudden, the most committed and hard-line supporter of the absolute ruler.

Ahmet A?ao?lu and the Genealogy of Liberalism in Turkey? by H. Ozan Özavc? (Brill, 269 pages, $141)

May 7 is the date of parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom. A month later, on June 7, Turkey will go through the same test. Being two Allies in NATO and with the U.K. supporting Turkish membership in the EU, the two countries seem to have several commonalities which bring them closer to each other, despite the fact they lie in the most eastern and the most western ends of Europe.

Moldova's parliament on Thursday voted down the government proposed by Prime Minister Iurie Leanca, more than two months after general elections gave a narrow victory to pro-European Union parties.

Macovei, 55, on Tuesday resigned from the opposition Liberal Democrat Party, PDL, and announced that she will run as an independent candidate in November's presidential elections.

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A nationalist deputy in the Russian Duma, Mikhail Degtyarev, has warned Montenegro not to join NATO, saying the country could potentially be targeted by Russian missiles.

A Podgorica-based website, IN4S, quoted the member of the Liberal Democrat Party as saying that Montenegro would become “a legitimate target of Russian missiles” if it joined the alliance.

"Montenegro could become legitimate target"

PODGORICA -- Russian State Duma Deputy Mikhail Degtyarev has threatened that Montenegro could be targeted by Russian missiles if that country joined NATO.