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Thirty-six Moldovan citizens, including 18 children, have arrived in Chisinau after being evacuated from the war-torn Gaza Strip.
Moldova has to take further steps in aligning itself with the European Union's punitive measures and sanctions against Russia, the bloc's executive body recommended in its annual progress report that advocates the conditional opening of membership negotiations with Chisinau.
The European Commission is due to tell Moldova on November 8 that it has fulfilled six out of the nine criteria needed to begin negotiations for European Union membership, according to a draft report seen by RFE/RL.
Incumbent Ion Ceban has been reelected as mayor of Moldova's capital, Chisinau, preliminary results showed early on November 6, in a potential setback for pro-Western President Maia Sandu's ruling Party of Action and Solidarity.
More than 1.1 million people -- or about 40 percent of registered voters -- cast ballots in Moldova’s municipal elections, surpassing the required 25 percent in most areas, in a vote marked by accusations of Russian meddling in the former Soviet republic.
Moldova's Commission for Exceptional Situations (CSE) has decided to bar the Chance party's candidates from taking part in local elections this weekend for allegedly using illegal money from Russia in the campaign, Prime Minister Dorin Recean said on November 3.
Moldova has blocked access to the websites of major Russian news media on grounds that Russia is using them to try to influence upcoming local elections.
Canada has sanctioned nine more individuals and six television stations involved in actions to destabilize Moldova and to facilitate Russia's war in Ukraine.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has praised the efforts of EU candidate Moldova toward meeting the criteria for membership in the 27-member bloc, saying that Chisinau has made "remarkable" and "impressive" progress in implementing reforms.
Moldovan President Maia Sandu said in an interview published on October 6 that the Wagner mercenary group founded by the now-deceased Yevgeny Prigozhin had planned a coup in Moldova.
Moldovan authorities on October 4 reinforced a ban on members of an outlawed Russia-backed party taking part in upcoming local elections, in effect reversing the Constitutional Court's decision a day earlier that had scrapped the interdiction.
Moldova's Constitutional Court said on October 3 that members of the Russia-backed Shor party can take part in local elections next month, less than four months after it banned the organization.
Mircea Snegur, who oversaw Moldova's break from the Soviet Union and the newly independent country's first president, has died at the age of 83 after a prolonged illness.
Moldovan authorities have expelled the director of Russia's Sputnik state news agency in Moldova, Vitaly Denisov, saying he poses a national security threat.
Moldova's energy minister says the government will propose that Moldovagaz, a subsidiary of Gazprom, pay the Russian gas giant $8.6 million to settle a debt that Gazprom says is more than $700 million.
Moldovan President Maia Sandu marked her country’s Independence Day by recalling the effort of Moldovans to "win freedom" 32 years ago and by saying that Moldovan authorities now "have the chance and the duty" to take the country into the European Union.
The Moldovan Interior Ministry on August 21 cited a ban on musician Goran Bregovic imposed last year because of his pro-Russian views as the reason he and his band were not allowed to enter Moldova over the weekend.
Russia has banned entry to 20 Moldovan officials following Moldova's "unfriendly" decision to expel 45 Russian diplomats and employees of the Russian Embassy.
Over 30 years, Ana Furtuna from the Moldovan city of Drochia has been a foster parent to 28 children. When she and her husband first realized they would not be able to have their own children, they took in seven foster kids from an orphanage.
Moldovan lawmakers on July 31 passed a bill that prevents the leaders of a Russia-backed party that was banned by the Constitutional Court from running in elections for a period of five years.
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