WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to eastern Europe next week as concerns mount about Russia’s advances in Ukraine, potential Russian interference in neighboring Moldova and pro-Moscow legislation being promoted in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, the State Department said Friday. Blinken will visit the Moldovan capital of Chişinau on […]
Ukraine and Moldova can hope for a quick start to EU accession negotiations, the Belgian EU Council presidency said following a ministerial meeting in Brussels on Tuesday evening. The presidency made it clear that it is working towards organizing a first conference of negotiating delegations by the end of June. Hungary will take over the […]
(Bloomberg) — Moldova is set to hold a presidential election and a referendum on joining the European Union on Oct. 20 after a court approved a draft amendment to the constitution defining European integration as a strategic objective. Most Read from Bloomberg Tuesday’s decision by the Constitutional Court in the capital, Chisinau, marks the final […]
CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — The past two years have been the hardest and most tumultuous for European Union candidate Moldova in more than three decades as it faces threats from Russia in multiple spheres of public life, the country’s foreign minister says. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, its neighbor Moldova has faced a litany […]
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Moldova’s national intelligence agency warned Tuesday against “unprecedented” Russian interference as the country gears up for a referendum on joining the European Union and a presidential election. The Intelligence and Security Services, or SIS, released a report saying it has gathered data indicating Russia plans to launch vast hybrid attacks against […]
Moldova’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reacted to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s comments on Transnistrian lawmakers’ appeals for assistance from Russia. Source: Moldovan Foreign Ministry quoted by NewsMaker, as reported by European Pravda Details: As the Moldovan Foreign Ministry emphasised, “Lavrov and the Kremlin regime have no moral right to school anyone on democracy […]
When there was no mention of Transnistria — Moldova’s Russia-led breakaway republic — in Vladimir Putin’s speech on Feb. 29, Moldovans sighed with relief. A day prior, the leaders of the unrecognized breakaway entity, sandwiched between Ukraine and Moldova, had asked Russia for “protection” — a plea that some saw as an invitation for Moscow’s […]
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock believes recent developments in Moldova mirror those at the beginning of the Ukraine-Russia conflict several years ago when Moscow illegally annexed the Crimean peninsula. Her comments came after the pro-Russian rulers of the breakaway region of Transnistria in Moldova asked Russia for “protection,” according to media reports. A congress of […]
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, met with his Moldovan counterpart Maia Sandu on the sidelines of the Ukraine-South-East Europe summit, which was held in Tirana, the capital of Albania, on 28 February. Source: European Pravda with reference to the Office of the President of Ukraine Details: The Ukrainian and Moldovan leaders discussed “recent events” in […]
So-called MPs from the unrecognised breakaway state of Transnistria have requested at a congress that Russia “protect it against the pressure of Moldova.” Source: European Pravda with reference to Newsmaker Details: The appeal was addressed to Russia’s Federation Council and the State Duma, requesting “measures to protect Transnistria in the face of increased pressure from […]
The European Commission on Feb. 20 announced the allocation of 83 million euros ($89.8 million) in humanitarian assistance to Ukraine and Moldova in 2024. Counting today’s donation, the EU’s executive arm has devoted 923 million euros ($999 million) to humanitarian aid to civilians affected by Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine since February 2022. Some 75 […]
Fragments of a Shahed-type drone were found in Moldova in a field two kilometers from the country’s border with Ukraine, the Moldovan Border Police reported on Feb. 17. According to the border police, drone debris was found near the village of Etulia, a Moldovan border settlement some 15 kilometers northeast of the Ukrainian Danube port […]