LONDON (AP) — Moldova and Georgia celebrated after European Union leaders buoyed their aspirations to join the 27 member nation bloc by removing key hurdles on their long path toward membership. Lawmakers in both the Moldovan and Georgian parliaments waved EU flags and played the bloc’s anthem at Friday’s opening […]
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CNN — Moldovan soccer player Violeta Mitul has died aged 26 in a “tragic accident,” European soccer’s governing body UEFA announced on Friday. “The 26-year-old defender was involved in a tragic accident while on a mountain hike with club-mates,” UEFA said in a statement. She died on September 4, her […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to discuss military issues and the regional security environment, state media said Thursday. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said Kim and Shoigu talked Wednesday in the capital, Pyongyang, and reached a consensus on unspecified “matters […]
CHISINAU, July 1 (Reuters) – The chief suspect in a shootout in Moldova’s main international airport remained in a coma on Saturday and was wanted in his native Tajikistan in connection with the abduction of a bank officer, Moldovan authorities said. The 43-year-old man grabbed a gun and shot dead […]
Josep Borrell says EU ‘ready to support Moldova’ Ilan Shor has managed to co-ordinate a successful election campaign in Comrat, the capital city of the autonomous republic of Gagauzia. The republic, located within Moldova, rejects the country’s pro-EU, pro-Western stance, instead opting to look towards Russia. While Shor — a […]
Zelensky accuses Russia of trying to destabilise Moldova In the scramble that was the dissolution of the Soviet Union, many new breakaway states came into existence. One of these was Gagauzia, an autonomous republic that sits within Moldova’s territory but declares itself entirely separate from the country. Unlike Transnistria, the […]
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has urged the international community to put concrete “security guarantees” in place in Ukraine and its neighbour Moldova to give the countries enduring protection against Russia. His plea at the start of a summit of 47 European leaders in Moldova came as officials confirmed that an 11-year-old girl, […]
Moldova increases security following map ‘mistake’ Express.co.uk has been made aware that pro-Russian forces are planning on causing mass disruption in Moldova’s capital, Chișinău. The protests are due to take place on Sunday, May 7, and are believed to have been orchestrated by the Kremlin-backed President of the Șor Party, […]