Moldova Travel News

Jenna Tajchman, a Lincolnville native, recently completed a two-year mission to the Republic of Moldova under the auspices of the Peace Corps.

Dozens of people led by an Orthodox priest smashed a menorah in Moldova's capital, using hammers and iron bars to remove the candelabra during Hanukkah, officials said.

A high-ranking U.S. diplomat visiting Chisinau said the White House supports Moldova's democratic process and will stand by it as it makes its foreign policy choices, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports.

Visiting Moldovan PM Vlad Filat and his Romanian counterpart signed several agreements, including the one on border traffic.

Date : Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:00:36 PST Friday, November 6, 2009 Armenian, Azeri Leaders Agree To Meet Again Moldova -- Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian meets with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev in Chisinau, 08Oct2009 07.11.2009 Emil Danielyan The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to meet soon for the sixth time this year, ...

FORTY people were wounded in a grenade explosion in the heart of the Moldovan capital Chisinau where thousands had massed for an outdoor concert, officials said today.

An explosion injured 26 people on the central square of the Moldovan capital Chisinau during a concert to celebrate the City Day late on Wednesday.

The President outlined current status of the negotiations regarding settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabakh conflict, and results of his meeting with President of Armenia in Chisinau.

New Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat has told RFE/RL's Moldovan Service that Chisinau might seek "common action" with Kyiv in its efforts to join the European Union.

The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs are in Yerevan to meet President Serge Sargsyan and Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian.

Albania PM Appeals for Kosovo at UN 28 September 2009 Albaniaa s Prime Minister Sali Berisha gave an impassioned speech this weekend to the UN General Assembly appealing for more countries to recognise Kosovoa s independence.

The European Union has signaled it's ready to resume full cooperation with Moldova following the appointment of a new, liberal-led government and Chisinau's recent decision to normalize relations with neighboring Romania.

Ramada Worldwide, one of the world's leading international hotel chain's with nearly 900 locations around the globe, today announced that the 140-room Ramada Chisinau City Center property in the Republic of Moldova will be the country's first internationally branded hotel.

International election observers traveling to Moldova have been detained and others expelled, RFE/RL's Ukrainian and Moldovan services report.

Eleven members of the Georgian nongovernmental organization Fair Elections were not allowed to travel to Moldova.

Tudor Stratan emigrated to Spain almost a decade ago. A father of two, Stratan works as a driver and belongs to the vast diaspora of Moldovans working abroad to support relatives back home in Europe's poorest country.

Three months after their country was wracked by violent post-election protests, Moldovans vote again this week in a tightly contested ballot that could see the ex-Soviet republic remain in Russia's orbit or edge closer to the European Union.

Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski said in Chisinau on July 24 that Warsaw is ready to support Moldova's European integration efforts if the upcoming Moldovan parliamentary elections are "positively evaluated internationally." Sikorski said that if such conditions are met his country will work within the EU to secure Moldova a new association ...

Kompromat is alive and well. After last week's revelations about a British diplomat cavorting with prostitutes in Russia, a new sex-tape scandal looks set to further damage relations between Romania and Moldova.

An American journalist's perspective: the media in the region have loyalties, accept financial support, and get around truth-telling. MARK Mulcahy, an American journalist and journalism professor, explored media ethics in Bulgaria, Romania and Moldova for his MA thesis, which he wrote as a graduate student of journalism at the University of ...