Despite relaxed relations between Moldova and Transdniestria, Russia has recently raised the alarm the frozen conflict might turn hot. Is it a serious threat or just a manufactured crisis?
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Summary: Despite relaxed relations between Moldova and Transdniestria, Russia has recently raised the alarm the frozen conflict might turn hot. Is it a serious threat or just a manufactured crisis?
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The U.S. politician Tip O’Neill is credited with the phrase “all politics is local.” UK prime minister Neville Chamberlain, too, discovered the global reach of local politics, admitting on the eve of the Second World War that it was “horrible, fantastic, incredible . . . that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.” Most of us know nothing of the Moldova/Transdniestria conflict,
Moldova lowers retirement age 75 https://static.news.ru/photo/98db9e36-3fc1-11eb-9988-fa163e074e61 660.jpg Photo: parlament.md
The Moldovan Parliament has adopted a bill to reduce the retirement age, Speaker Zinaida Greceanîi said.
The draft on lowering the retirement age was adopted in the second reading, Greceanîi said.
The document was supported by 54 out of 101 MPs.
The law will come into force on January 1, 2021. It implies a reduction in the retirement age for men to 62 years, and for women to 57 years. Women with more than four children will retire at 54.
The corresponding initiative was submitted to the parliament by the Socialist Party. However, the opposition criticized the document, as it would not allow increasing the amount of pension payments due to the increase in the number of pensioners,
Ukraine is ready to open a new page in relations with the Republic of Moldova.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba stated following a meeting with Moldovan President-elect Maia Sandu, Ukrinform reports referring to the Foreign Ministry s press service. Ukraine welcomes the successful holding of free and democratic presidential elections in Moldova, which have clearly confirmed the European choice of the Moldovan people. We are ready to open a qualitatively new page in Ukrainian-Moldovan relations,” said Kuleba.
He congratulated Maia Sandu on her convincing victory in the election and, on behalf of President Volodymyr Zelensky, extended an invitation to visit Ukraine.