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Moldovan oligarch and former head of the Moldova's Democratic Party (PDM) Vlad Plahotniuc has been banned from entering the United States "due to his involvement in significant corruption," the U.S. State Department said in a statement on January 13.
Human rights activists and the family of a whistle-blower about abuses in the breakaway Moldovan region of Transdniester's army say the young man is missing and they fear he was abducted by paramilitary elements in the separatist administration.
A fugitive Moldovan tycoon and former leader of Moldova's Democratic Party, who is wanted for alleged money laundering, was issued a second set of identity papers under a different name last year, President Igor Dodon has said.
Moldova's parliament has approved a new government led by former a finance minister and presidential adviser, Ion Chicu.
Moldovan President Igor Dodon nominated one of his advisers to be the country’s next prime minister, a day after pro-Western Prime Minister Maia Sandu's cabinet lost a confidence vote.
Supporters of Prime Minister Maia Sandu rallied outside the Moldovan parliament in the capital, Chisinau, as her pro-Western government lost a no-confidence motion. People chanted messages such as "We are the people!" and "We're not going to give in!" as the motion was heard in the parliamentary chamber on November 12.
Moldovan Prime Minister Maia Sandu's pro-Western government has collapsed after losing a no-confidence vote in parliament.
A candidate from the pro-Russian Moldovan Socialist Party (PSRM) has for the first time in the country’s post-Soviet history been elected as mayor of Chisinau, the nation’s capital city, official preliminary results indicated on November 4.
Moldova’s Moscow-friendly President Igor Dodon says the settlement of the frozen conflict in Transdniester is heading in the right direction, citing a Russian proposal to shutter a massive ammunition depot in the breakaway region.
A run-off election is set for the all-important mayoral seat of Moldova's capital city between pro-Russian Socialist Ion Ceban and the pro-EU ACUM Bloc’s Andrei Nastase, with 87 percent of the votes counted.
U.S. national-security adviser John Bolton has reaffirmed the United States' support of Moldova's sovereignty and independence on a visit to Chisinau.
U.S. national-security adviser John Bolton is travelling to Moldova on August 29 to discuss "security matters" following a two-day stay in Ukraine as part of visit to the region,which also includes Belarus on the itinerary.
Moldovan Prime Minister Maia Sandu says that the country's "citizens will never approve federalization," which is one of the proposals made by Russia to settle Moldova's problem with its Transdniester breakaway region. Sandu spoke to RFE/RL in Chisinau on August 23 ahead of her upcoming U.S. visit.
Maia Sandu, Moldova’s new pro-Western prime minister, is scheduled to travel to Washington next week, looking to convince U.S. officials that her country’s reforms are track and Chisinau is worthy of renewed financial aid.
Moldova’s new Prime Minister Maia Sandu visited Brussels on July 24 where she signed three financial assistance agreements worth $45 million with Johannes Hahn, the EU’s enlargement commissioner.
Tens of thousands of Moldovans have signed a petition calling for the authorities to punish a priest after he appeared in a social-media post apparently dragging a dog on a chain hooked to his car.
Soviet authorities sent a promising student writer from Moldova to the gulag in the 1940s, just for the critical thoughts they found in his personal journals. Aleksei Marinat's story has echoes of the life of the late Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Moldova's new pro-European government to continue on the path of reforms and step up the fight against widespread corruption, saying Berlin would offer Chisinau its support.
U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale congratulated Moldova's new prime minister, Maia Sandu, and expressed U.S. support for her government during a July 13 meeting in the Moldovan capital.
Completed in March 2018, the report by the U.S.-based corporate investigative firm Kroll is the second part of a detailed audit of how Moldovan banks distributed massive loans without adequate oversight.
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