Moldova

Moldovans vote by razor-thin majority in favor of securing the country´s path toward European Union membership, electoral data showed Monday.

Russia will “definitely not stop” with Ukraine if it is allowed to “survive” its war against Ukraine, warned Volodymyr Zelensky. 

Transnistria, a sliver of land and unrecognised republic since 1990 is asking Russia to step in for protection from pro-Europe Moldova. 

The EU should be bolder over new member states to head off attempts by the Russian state to undermine pro-European sentiment, diplomats say.

Commission Prez von der Leyen sys imperative to include countries such as Ukraine and Moldova to prevent influence of Russia or China.

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers arrested four “special interest aliens” who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry. Troopers arrested an Iranian male, a Chinese male, and two Moldovan males in three separate incidents.

(AFP) – President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed Friday to do everything to defeat Russia this year, as the first Leopard tanks arrived in Ukraine on the anniversary of the start of Europe’s largest conflict since World War II.

(AFP) – Ukraine said Russia had unleashed a fresh barrage of missiles Saturday, killing at least 14 people, as Britain became the first Western country to offer it the heavy tanks it has long been seeking.

Gazprom threatened to cut off all gas supplies to Europe after alleging that Ukraine stole gas transiting through their country.

Diplomats are drumming up money and other support Monday for Europe´s poorest country, Moldova, which is suffering massive blackouts.

Twelve people, allegedly members of two illegal immigration networks, have been arrested by French police.

Ursula von der Leyen, the German defence minister turned unelected leader of the European Commission, said the European Union will not be “complete” until Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and the Western Balkans are absorbed by it.

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) – Authorities in the tiny breakaway region of Transnistria in Moldova denied “absolutely untrue” claims Saturday by Ukraine that Russian troops based there are massing to conduct “provocations” along Ukraine’s border.

U.S Customs and Border Protection (CBP) authorities in Chicago seized 130 false vaccination cards bound for the Detroit area from Moldova.

Moldovan voters vote this weekend in a election that could decide whether the former Soviet republic embraces pro-Western reforms.

Austrian police have arrested three Romanian nationals after busting a sex trafficking gang that allegedly lured at least 20 women, mainly from Moldova, to Austria and forced them into prostitution.

The Chinese coronavirus pandemic has allowed dozens of countries around the world to expand the power of their central governments, presumably to protect populations and facilitate processes like mass vaccinations.

Maia Sandu, a former World Bank economist who favors closer ties with the European Union, has won Moldova’s presidential runoff vote.

The federal government offers grants for the production of comic books to “promote a culture of peace” and promotion of sports in Cameroon.

VIENNA (AP) – Austrian and Moldovan authorities have broken up an organized crime ring suspected of smuggling nuclear materials, the European police agency said Friday.

A pair of Moldovan migrants were viciously beaten by a mob at a French outdoor swimming pool after molesting two underage girls.

TEL AVIV – Moldova will relocate its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the Filip government said Tuesday, making it the first European country to have its embassy in Jerusalem.  The announcement comes amid a constitutional crisis that

Moldova’s president said his country would “very seriously consider” moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, according to Jewish interlocutors who met with him.

MOSCOW (AFP) – Moldova’s president said Tuesday he hoped the ex-Soviet nation’s association agreement with the European Union would be cancelled if his party obtains a parliamentary majority, paving the way for an alliance with Moscow.

With all eyes on Syria and a global order decayed by invasions, interventions, and arming of rogue factions by the Kremlin, the Democratic Party appears poised to lay the blame for Russian aggression at the foot of President-elect Donald Trump.

Contents: Bulgaria: Socialist pro-Russian Rumen Radev wins election as president; Moldova: Socialist pro-Russian Igor Dodon wins highly polarizing presidential election

CHISINAU, (AP) — Moldovans are voting in a presidential election Sunday in which the favorite has promised to restore ties with Russia that cooled after the former Soviet republic signed a trade deal with the European Union. Igor Dodon, a

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — More than 2,000 people marched through the Romanian capital Saturday demanding the country’s reunification with neighboring Moldova. Demonstrators waved the virtually identical Romanian and Moldovan flags as they filed down the city’s main streets. They shouted

Contents: Human traffickers sell routes through Europe for 5000 euros; Europeans expect hundreds of thousands of migrants from Libya

Contents: Mass protests force Moldova to choose between Europe and Russia; Moldova crisis presents opportunities and dangers for Russia

Hundreds of protesters broke through police lines on Wednesday to get into Moldova’s Parliament after it approved a new government to end months of deadlock between the president and the legislature. Before the vote, protesters massed outside Parliament waving the

Last month, there were reports of a joint effort between Eastern European countries, especially Moldova, and the FBI to crack down on nuclear smugglers. The deadly contraband for sale in those accounts was cesium, which could be used to create dirty bombs. The authorities were somewhat skeptical about these black marketeers possessing serious nuclear bomb fuel.

An Associated Press report describes a joint project between Eastern European authorities and the FBI to expose a nuclear smuggling ring, which tried to sell “a huge cache of deadly cesium – enough to contaminate several city blocks”– to ISIS.

MOSCOW: Some 10,000 people took to the streets of Chisinau, capital of Europe’s poorest nation Moldova, to protest over the disappearance of $1 billion from three banks, police said.