Andrew Rettman
Andrew Rettman is a Brussels based reporter at the EUobserver.com.
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By Andrew Rettman
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Eastern Europe
Transniestria looks to Russia, not EU
27 January 2011EUobserver.com Brussels -
14 December 2010EUobserver.com Brussels
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Alliances
Nordic countries huddle together
7 December 2010EUobserver.com Brussels
The 350,000-or-so people living in the separatist Transniestria region want to integrate with Russia despite a new wave of euro-optimism on the other side of its unofficial border with Moldova. But their views are shaped by decades of repression. 
A self-funded group of former EU officials and NGO, media and PR-sector workers based in Belgium has set up an EU version of WikiLeaks, in what is just one of several copycat sites springing up since Cablegate began. 
As the world gets bigger, and the rush for the resources beneath the Artic sea intensifies, the countries of Europe’s far North are seeking common cause.