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Supporters of a fugitive businessman's pro-Russian party have led thousands in a protest outside the Moldovan president's official residence in Chisinau to complain about gas and other price hikes and press their demands for early elections.
Air Moldova has announced that it will resume flights to Moscow following a seven-month suspension.
Moldovan President Maia Sandu marked the 31st anniversary of the small nation’s independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union with a speech that included a condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and a push for the country's eventual EU membership.
Vira Derevenko has an entire refugee camp almost entirely to herself. She is one of just three people still living among the lines of tents in Moldova, where she came six months ago. She has refused an offer of more comfortable housing from the authorities, and does not feel able to return home.
Moldova's parliament voted on July 28 to extend a state of emergency for 60 days after the government said it still needed special powers to deal with the fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Moldova's National Anti-Corruption Center (CNA) said on July 13 that it had searched the home of former parliament speaker Andrian Candu and three other properties owned by him as part of an investigation into allegations of "unjust enrichment."
President Maia Sandu traveled to Ukraine on June 27 in her first trip to Moldova's neighbor since start of the war and visited the towns of Bucha and Irpin -- sites of alleged Russian atrocities against civilians.
The European Union will give a "clear" and "positive" response to membership bids by Moldova and Ukraine, but there will be "conditions" before either obtains candidate status, French President Emmanuel Macron said on June 15 in Chisinau.
A Moldovan court has placed former President Igor Dodon under house arrest for 30 days to allow prosecutors to investigate allegations of corruption and treason.
Moldovan prosecutors have asked that former President Igor Dodon, who was arrested on May 24 on suspicion of treason and corruption, be placed in pretrial detention for 30 days.
The United States and Britain are offering Moldova military aid amid rising fears after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It has sparked a debate on whether the country should scrap its neutrality.
Russia has warned Moldova again that it will "closely" follow the case of pro-Russian ex-President Igor Dodon, who was detained on suspicion of treason and corruption, as his supporters took to the streets to demand his release.
The former president of Moldova, Igor Dodon, has been detained by Moldovan authorities on corruption charges, the Prosecutor-General's Office said on May 24.
Authorities in Moldova's breakaway Transdniester region said on May 13 that two attempted attacks were carried out on a fuel depot and conscription center in the regional capital, Tiraspol.
Moldovan Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita said that, if the fighting in neighboring Ukraine spills over into her country, it would mean that a state, which never wanted to join NATO and did not make any efforts to do so, is drawn into the war.
Moldovan Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita says she sees no immediate threat of Russia’s war against Ukraine spreading to her country, even as concerns grow that Moscow’s military aims may be widening.
A television channel in Moldova's breakaway Transdniester region is reporting that shots have been fired near one of its border crossings with Ukraine.
European Council President Charles Michel has promised to boost military aid to Moldova, whose Moscow-backed separatist region of Transdniester has reported several incidents that led to accusations Russia is seeking to destabilize the former Soviet republic.
The self-styled Interior Ministry of Moldova's separatist Transdniester region that borders Ukraine claimed on April 27 that shots were fired at a village housing a sprawling Russian munitions depot after drones flew over from Ukraine.
President Maia Sandu said on April 26 that several alleged attacks in Moldova's Moscow-backed breakaway region of Transdniester were an attempt to escalate tensions, blaming "pro-war factions" within the territory's administration.
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