RFE/RL’s Moldova Service reaches 30 percent of the population in Moldova each week, increasing listeners’ understanding of local, regional, and global events.
Moldova's lawmakers voted to set the next parliamentary elections for September 28 in a test for the country's fragile democracy caught between pro-European and pro-Russian forces.
The Moldovan government on January 6 said it will provide natural gas to 14 localities in the Moscow-backed Transdniester breakaway region as residents there suffer through brutal winter after Russian supplies were cut off on New Year’s Day.
Moldova’s pro-Moscow breakaway Transdniester region was bracing for additional rolling power cuts and business closures after the supply of Russian natural gas was stopped on January 1 due to the expiration of a supply contract with Ukraine.
Some Moldovans are scrambling to find ways to heat their homes days after gas supplies from Russia were abruptly stopped. As of January 1, Ukraine refused to transit Russian gas, leaving the breakaway Transdniester region and some nearby Moldovan villages cut off.
Moldovan state-owned energy trader JSC Energocom says it will cover 100 percent of electricity consumption on January 3, two days after supplies of Russian natural gas abruptly stopped due to the expiration of a supply contract with Ukraine.
Russia's state energy giant Gazprom on December 28 said it would cease gas deliveries to Moldova at the end of this year because of a dispute over debt with the small Western Balkan nation that aligned with the West.
Final preliminary results show Moldova's pro-Western president, Maia Sandu, has won a second term, a critical milestone for the integration of one of Europe's poorest countries into the European Union that U.S. President Joe Biden said was proof that Russian interference "failed."
The charge d'affaires of the Georgian Embassy in Chisinau, David Bochorisvili, was summoned to the Moldovan Foreign Ministry on November 12 over statements made last week by Georgia’s prime minister at the summit of the European Political Community in Budapest.
Moldova's Foreign Ministry has condemnd Russia's "aggressive" actions after two Russian drones entered Moldovan airspace and crashed on its territory on November 10.
Moldovan voters appeared to be united around the wish for a better future as they elected a new president on November 3. In the capital, Chisinau, a pro-EU voter told RFE/RL: "We want to be where life is better." Another voter quoted "peace," a resonating topic amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Moldovans voted in a presidential runoff on November 3. After casting their ballots in the capital, Chisinau, both runoff rivals referred to suspicions of foreign meddling.
Moldova's pro-Western incumbent President Maia Sandu has defeated Russia-friendly challenger Alexandr Stoianoglo in balloting marred by accusations of Russian interference and voter fraud.
Moldova has been observing a mandated day of silence ahead of a presidential runoff vote on November 3 between pro-EU incumbent Maia Sandu and the Russia-friendly former Prosecutor-General Alexandr Stoianoglo.
Moldovan voters will choose between pro-EU incumbent Maia Sandu and former Prosecutor-General Alexandr Stoianoglo, who is backed by the pro-Russian Socialist Party. RFE/RL's Moldovan Service introduces the candidates, their campaigns, and the controversies that are complicating their careers.
Authorities in Moldova are urging people to ignore a "massive attack of fake messages and calls" telling them they will receive payments in exchange for voting for President Maia Sandu in the November 3 presidential runoff.
French President Emmanuel Macron has encouraged Moldovans to continue on the path of integration into the European Union ahead of a decisive presidential runoff pitting pro-EU incumbent Maia Sandu against Moscow-friendly Alexandr Stoianoglo.
Moldova's Constitutional Court on October 31 validated the result of the country's October 26 referendum on integration into the European Union.
As Moldova's presidential election goes into a second round runoff on November 3, the pro-Western incumbent faces a tough battle for votes in a town where 95 percent voted against the European Union in a recent referendum.
Moldovan police say convicted fugitive oligarch Ilan Shor has transferred $39 million into the bank accounts of thousands of Moldovans over the past two months allegedly to buy votes for the pro-Russia camp at last week's referendum and first round of presidential elections.
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