Moldova News

Moldova's Health Ministry says 25 high-school students in Chisinau have tested positive for swine flu, raising the number of those infected in the country to 65, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports.

The new western-leaning government in Moldova faces many challenges in the southern European country.

Soaring statues of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, portraits of the city's most productive workers adorning a square, red flags fluttering in the wind during a Communist demonstration.

The platform is a regional initiative of the Black Sea region and aims at multiplying opportunities for the transformation of local, national and regional conflicts, preventing violence and peace.

Moldova's parliament has decided to vote next week to replace former Communist President Vladimir Voronin, but there is little sign of ending a deadlock between Communists and the new Western-leaning government.

Moldova's parliament on Tuesday set November 10 as the date for its vote to elect the country's new president.

According to the National bureau of statistics of the Republic of Moldova, during nine months of 2009, the average sale prices of agricultural products, formed by agricultural enterprises of Moldova, decreased by 31.3% compared to the indices of the same period of the previous year.

BROUGHT together by fate but forced apart by circumstance, they were like star-crossed lovers from a Hollywood movie.

An International Monetary Fund staff mission headed by Nikolay Gueorguiev and the authorities of the Republic of Moldova have reached preliminary agreement on a new economic program that could be supported by combined three-year Extended Credit Facility/Stand-by Arrangements, 1 totaling SDR 369.6 million .

Moldovan presidential candidate Marian Lupu says he is rejecting calls from the Communist parliamentary opposition to quit the Alliance for European Integration in order to secure his election as president, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports.

CHISINAU, Moldova - The International Monetary Fund has agreed to give Moldova a $590 million loan to help the country's economy stabilize and recover from recession.

Russia's relations with its neighbors are worse than ever, and this is particularly true among the former Soviet republics.

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ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH: Should parliament fail to elect a new president, snap polls would have to be called in 2010.

The United States has thrown its weight behind Moldova's aspirations to boost ties with the European Union, following an election that last month handed power to a Western-leaning government in Chisinau.

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.

State security officials said the grenade had apparently been left in a box and exploded as the Russian pop group Bravo brought the concert to its climax late Wednesday.

President of Russia Dmitrii Medvedev shakes hands with Marian Lupu, candidate for presidency of Moldova during bilateral meeting during the Summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States on 09 October 2009 in Chisinau, Moldova.

Moldova's Interior Minister Victor Catan said Thursday that foreign forces are probably behind Wednesday's blast in Chisinau, capital city of the eastern European country.

The breakaway republic of Transdnestr, which dreams of joining Russia, presents visitors with an awkward mix of communist and capitalist chic.