MoldovAnn

The Communist Party claims victory in Sunday’s Parliamentary elections in Moldova, and yesterday protests broke out in the center of Chisinau. There had been very strong campaigning against the Communists, who have been in power since 2001, but my guess is the opposition was split among so many parties that they defeated themselves.

I talked to two friends in Chisinau yesterday – one in her office right in the center of town, in the heart of the protest area; the other at work on the edge of town. The first told me there were reports of injured protesters being transported away by ambulances. Both said the protesters are overwhelming young people. Traffic was blocked in the center, but a few blocks away was supposedly running normally.

I am having a hard time finding good news sources on-line. The New York Times is reporting from Moscow, which to me means they don’t know squat either, their news is as much hearsay as the anything else. And since they have no facts to report, they published an article about the social networking aspects of the protests. Please. Give me some real news!!!

I’m trying to find blogs, there’s a lot of twittering. Moldovarius has some commentary and photos. Ah, and I see GlobalVoices just posted. OK, I gotta go read all that.