Moldova formally exits Russia’s post-Soviet CIS as Sandu signs withdrawal decrees
President Sandu's decrees complete a break that parliament voted through on 2 April.
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Russia’s buffer zone wishlist now includes Vinnytsia — via Moldova’s Transnistria, Ukrainian official says
Zelenskyy's office deputy chief Palisa said this is the first time such plans have been recorded, though he stressed Russia currently lacks the forces to act on any of its territorial ambitions.
“The last thread that keeps us anchored in a toxic, bitter past” — Moldova’s parliament votes to leave the post-Soviet CIS bloc
Parliament backed the denunciation of the founding agreements 60 to 17 on 2 April, with Communists and Socialists the only bloc voting against.
$10,000 per person: Moldova arrests 11 drivers in Ukrainian male smuggling network
Eleven taxi drivers in Moldova have been detained on suspicion of smuggling roughly 400 Ukrainian men out of the country for fees reaching $10,000 per crossing, Moldova's anti-organised crime prosecutors said.
Moldova court cases reveal Russia’s transnational network to recruit, train and deploy spies and saboteurs
The man who recruited Moldovan citizens for drone training camps in the Balkans also organized the painting of Stars of David on Paris buildings in the days after the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks
Russia knocks out Moldova–Romania power link in strike on Ukraine
Russia's strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure on 23 March cut Moldova's primary link to the European grid
Moldova’s plan for Russian-controlled Transnistria: squeeze it economically, replace the separatist regime with an international administration
The non-paper proposes imposing uniform fiscal rules on Transnistria unilaterally, creating a convergence fund for political concessions, and joining the EU with Transnistria's EU law integration suspended "for a defined period."
Russia bombed Ukraine’s dam, poisoned Moldova’s river — and now claims Ukraine did it with a fuel truck
Pro-Russian Moldovan media are actively circulating three fake explanations for the Dniester contamination — a fuel truck accident, rocket propellant from Ukrainian air defense, and an allegedly struck Flamingo missile assembly plant.
Russia hit Ukraine’s hydropower plant eight days ago — and poisoned a river that flows into Moldova
Moldova's Environment Minister said the oil volume in the Dniester already "significantly exceeds" the initially reported 1.5 tonnes.
Putin sends election fixers to Budapest to keep Orbán’s Kremlin veto alive
A GRU-linked cell embedded in the Russian Embassy is running Moscow's Moldova playbook on Hungarian soil—and the stakes for Ukraine could not be higher
Russia offered $100,000 per kill: Joint Ukrainian-Moldovan operation dismantles assassination network targeting public figures
A defense intelligence spokesperson, a journalist on Russia's "extremist" list, a head of a state enterprise, special operations soldiers, and a pro-Ukrainian Russian activist — these were among at least five people a Russian-directed assassination network planned to kill in Ukraine
EU wants Russia to hold free elections and withdraw troops from Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Transnistria— as part of a Ukraine peace deal, leaked paper shows
The document, circulated by EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas among member states, also calls for nuclear weapons removal from Belarus, reparations, and free elections inside Russia.
Moldova’s Sandu declines Nobel Peace Prize nomination, says Ukrainian POWs deserve it more
“They deserve it first of all. But above all, they deserve peace"
Ukraine’s grid collapse plunges Moldova into darkness as temperatures hit -20°C (INFOGRAPHICS)
Nationwide outages continue on Monday despite partial repairs.
Moldova to exit from Russian-led CIS bloc by mid-February, says foreign minister
Though it stopped participating years ago, Moldova stayed legally tied to the CIS until now. That is finally about to change.
Moscow has its “peacekeepers” there: Romania, NATO member, ready to discuss unification with Moldova amid Russia’s war
Romania ready to negotiate merger with Moldova as Sandu says country struggles to "survive" alone.
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Chișinău boots out Russia’s Russkiy Dom for pushing Kremlin worldview
The 2009-opened Russian House will be out by July — part of Moldova’s wider pushback against Moscow’s influence.
Russia eyes Moldova’s Transnistria as new threat axis toward Odesa, says Ukrainian intelligence
Sources say Moscow is fueling military buildup and deploying agents in Moldova’s Russian-backed enclave to pressure Ukraine.
Russia tests crypto-funded hybrid warfare on Moldova. Latest “experiment” costs it $107 million
The funds were supposed to be used to buy protests and loyal politicians.