Moldova *UPDATES*

• there are allegations about the involvement in the protests of a Romanian right-wing organisation called Noua Dreapta. It is unclear though if they were involved in violent actions were not.
• a new video from yesterday’s protests. At some point the crowd apparently identifies and expels a provocator. On minute 5:50 you can also see a number of unknown persons wearing civilian clothes believed to be provocators. They are behind the police cordons. The previous days a number of policemen in civilian clothes have arrested or beaten peaceful demonstrators (here is one video).
• Natalia Morari - a journalist formerly expelled from Russia for writing about high-level corruption in the Russian government, was arrested in Chisinau.
• a new photograph showing police collusion with provocators installing an EU flag on a public building.
• Unimedia.md - a website covering the protests - was attacked by hackers.  Unimedia posted online an IP showing that some of the cyber attacks came from the Moldovan intelligence service 
• Cable TV networks took off air Romanian TV channels, which have covered extensively the protests. The Moldovan public TV channel Moldova 1 shows almost exclusively the government’s side of the story.
• The most exhaustive video of the violences is here - on Publictv.md. 1.5 hours of police vs protesters actions. It gives a very good impression of what was happening. Watch especially for minutes 49-54 and on.
• as historic perspective, in 2003 Voronin was U.S.' “democrat” when he stuck it to Russia over the breakaway region of Transnistria, refusing to sign on to the Russian settlement plan. When Voronin later mended fences with Russia the long knives came out for him. In the words of one observer of the region, this current revolt is against the communists (Voronin) who were yesterday the democrats against the communists in Transnistria.

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