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Moldova has expelled an employee of the Russian Embassy over “inappropriate behavior” earlier this week at the airport in Chisinau after Moldova barred a Russian delegation from entering the country.
The first freight train in 25 years on the Basarabeasca-Berezino line has now carried salt from Ukraine. This rail link historically connected Ukraine to Romania, passing through Moldova. But it was long abandoned until March. The line bypasses the pro-Moscow breakaway region of Transdniester.
Moldova's running community ran 14 kilometers through the country's Old Orhei nature reserve to gather plastic waste left behind by tourists and locals on the 55th anniversary of the founding of this protected area.
Moldovan lawmakers have approved the final reading of a bill that will change references to the country’s official national language in the constitution and in all legislative texts from Moldovan to Romanian.
Moldovan police said on March 12 that they had foiled a plot by groups of Russian-backed actors specially trained to cause mass unrest during a protest in the capital against the country’s new pro-Western government.
Moldova has cast doubt on an allegation by the de facto authorities of Transdniester that they had foiled a Ukraine-orchestrated "terrorist" plot to kill the separatist region's leaders, while Kyiv called it "a Kremlin provocation."
Moldovan lawmakers have approved the first reading of a bill that will introduce the syntagma "Romanian language" in all official pieces of legislation during a stormy session that led to scuffles between the parliamentary majority and the opposition pro-Russian bloc.
Partizan Belgrade said on February 23 that a small group of supporters of a football team from Moldova's breakaway Transdniester region have canceled their trip to the Serbian capital for the second leg of a Europa Conference League game.
The Kremlin has urged Moldova to exercise caution in its statements about Russian forces stationed in the breakaway Transdniester region just days after a new pro-Western government led by Prime Minister Dorin Recean was sworn in.
Several thousand people protested in the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, against President Maia Sandu and the country's pro-Western government on February 19, with many in the crowd linked to the Russia-friendly Shor Party.
The United States has welcomed the swearing in of a new pro-Western government in Moldova and reaffirmed its backing for President Maia Sandu's efforts to combat corruption and pursue her country's eventual integration into the European Union.
A new pro-Western government led by Prime Minister Dorin Recean has been sworn in in Moldova after receiving the backing of 62 lawmakers from the ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) in the 101-seat parliament.
The United States is "deeply concerned" about reports of a Russian plot to destabilize Moldova, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Karen Donfried said on February 15 in an interview with RFE/RL.
A group of Montenegrin boxers was stopped from entering Moldova on February 14 as President Maia Sandu warned that what she called diversionists in Moscow's service were plotting to overthrow her pro-Western government.
Serbia and Montenegro have asked Moldova for a clarification of statements made by Moldovan President Maia Sandu about information she said she received from Ukraine regarding Russian plans to carry out destabilizing actions with the participation of citizens of Serbia and Montenegro.
Moldovan President Maia Sandu has called for "maximum vigilance" after receiving documents from the Ukrainian intelligence services that she said showed that Russia planned to destabilize Moldova by using agents provocateurs to attack government buildings under the guise of public protests.
Moldovan President Maia Sandu has nominated former Interior Minister Dorin Recean as prime minister after Natalia Gavrilita stepped down just a year and a half into her government's mandate, plunging one of Europe's poorest countries into a political crisis as war rages in neighboring Ukraine.
Moldova's intelligence service has confirmed statements made by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy alleging that Russia has acted to destabilize the country.
Defense Minister Anatolie Nosatii has confirmed that Moldova has asked its Western partners for air-defense systems, in a move that signals a departure from the country's policy of not seeking to purchase lethal weapons from the West.
Authorities in Moldova said on January 15 that specialist teams have carried out "controlled detonations" of explosives that were discovered in rocket debris that border officials found in a northern village near the border with Ukraine.
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