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Police in Moldova say they have identified one of the perpetrators of a series of spray-painted Stars of David that appeared last month on buildings in Paris as being a Moldovan citizen who was acting on orders from fugitive businessman Ilan Shor in order to "denigrate the Republic of Moldova."
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Moscow "will not leave unanswered" Chisinau's decision to align with a package of European Union sanctions against Russia.
Moldova's government asked lawmakers on November 22 to prolong the state of emergency in the country by another 30 days from December 1.
Alexandr Petkov, the candidate of Our Party, a political grouping established by controversial businessman Renato Usatii, has won the runoff election for mayor in Balti, Moldova's second-largest city.
Orthodox priests in at least 13 parishes in Moldova expect to be accepted into the local branch of a Romanian church this week, furthering a trend of dozens of defections from the local arm of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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.
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