Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Moldova today that the threat to the security of Russian troops in the breakaway region of Transnistria risks provoking a military confrontation with Moscow. Russia has stationed peacekeepers in Transnistria since the early 1990s, when pro-Russian separatists wrested most of the region from Moldovan control in an armed conflict. […]
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Moldova expects zero growth in 2022 due to the war
Moldova’s government revised its economic outlook for 2022 to zero from a previous estimate of 0.3 percent growth, due to the negative effects of the war in neighboring Ukraine and rising energy prices worldwide, the economy ministry said. Last year Moldova’s growth rate reached almost 14%. The ministry highlighted that estimates for 2022 inflation have […]
Zelenskiy: Railway connection with Moldova restored
After 23 years, Ukraine has restored the rail link with neighboring Moldova, through which about 10 million tons of goods can be moved annually, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message on Monday. Although it did not specify the types of goods, Ukraine aspires to find new ways to export millions of tons […]
Russia restricts imports of agricultural products from Moldova
Russia is moving to limit imports of agricultural products from Moldova, in a move seen as an attempt by Moscow to exert pressure on Chisinau. In particular, as the Russian agricultural products safety authority announced on Tuesday, Russia is banning the import of agricultural products from 31 of the total 34 regions of Moldova, starting […]
Moldova: The state of emergency is extended in the shadow of the war in Ukraine
Moldova’s parliament voted today to extend a state of emergency declared in the country for another 60 days, after the government said it still needed expanded powers to deal with the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Prime Minister Natalya Gavrilitsa cited the continuing risks to energy security, the security of the country’s borders and […]
Transnistria continues to wish to join Russia
The aim of Transnistria, the breakaway region from Moldova, to become part of Russia remains unaffected by the war in neighboring Ukraine, the region’s foreign minister told the RIA Novosti news agency today. Internationally recognized as part of Moldova, Transnistria is located on a narrow strip of land along Ukraine’s southwestern border. Its status dates […]
Why Romania fears it will be Putin’s next victim
By Robert D. Kaplan In 1984, during the darkest period of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s Stalinist rule, I visited Targoviste, over an hour northwest of the capital, Bucharest, on the Wallachian plain. It was a hell town, with streets full of mud, some battered cars, no decent places to eat and garbage everywhere. People looked […]
Arms smuggling in Ukraine: EU fears ‘Yugoslavia scenario’
The EU today stepped up its cooperation with Moldova to help it control its border with Ukraine and prevent the risk of arms smuggling from the war-torn country. European Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson announced the creation of a “support hub for internal security and border management in Moldova”, a candidate country for EU membership, […]
S. Zaharaki: We are strengthening Greece-Moldavia cooperation in the field of tourism as well
Yesterday, Deputy Minister of Tourism Sofia Zaharaki met with the Moldovan-Greece Friendship Parliamentary Group of the Parliament of Moldova. During the meeting, the excellent level of bilateral relations, the traditionally friendly ties between the two peoples, as well as the deepening of cooperation between the two countries in the field of tourism were confirmed. In […]
From Ukraine, the President of Moldova states that her country is also vulnerable
Moldovan President Maia Sandou said during a visit to Ukraine that her country is “fragile and vulnerable” and needs help to remain “part of the free world”. Four days after the leaders of the European Union member states decided to accept Ukraine and Moldova as candidate countries for membership in the European bloc, Sandou visited […]