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http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=2394511&startrow=11&date=2002-04-29&do_alert=0 MOLDOVA: OPPOSITION ROUNDS OFF PROTEST RALLIES CHISINAU, April 29 /from RIA Novosti's Ludmilla Rybkina/ - Opposition activists are removing a shantytown pitched in the city's central thoroughfare between the presidential palace and parliament premises. Led by the Christian Democratic Popular Party, the protest action has gone on nonstop since January 9 after the government introduced compulsory Russian language classes in secondary school. Many thousand schoolchildren and college students came out under the motto, "Down with Russification!" Public unrest became hotter with an official order to replace Romanian history tuition by Moldovan history as Moldovans insist on their Romanian ethnic and historical identity. Both decisions concerning educational curricula were eventually revoked under public pressure, and caused protesters to change motto to "Down with Communists!" and demand the president, cabinet and parliament to step down. The Christian Democratic Popular Party is finishing the protest action after the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe recommended to put an end to unauthorised Chisinau rallies in a resolution issued in Strasbourg, April 24, party leader Jurie Rosca said to the media. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
