Moldova News

Rights activists march against police brutality in Moldova. July 03, 2009 Activists from several Moldovan human rights groups have held a march in downtown Chisinau to protest police brutality which, they say, in many cases amounts to torture, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports.

Editors of a leading Moldovan website say the government is trying to shut it down ahead of elections scheduled for July 29, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports.

CHISINAU Editors of a leading Moldovan website say the government is trying to shut it down ahead of elections scheduled for July 29, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports.

The "Big Daddy" of U.S. Democratic Party politics in the 1960s and '70s, Jesse Unruh, had a wonderfully ribald saying about the role of money and influence in the business of government: "If you can't drink a lobbyist's whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women, and still vote against him in the morning, you don't belong in politics." Moldova's ...

Acting President Vladimir Voronin says the survival of the Moldovan state is at stake in the upcoming parliamentary elections, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports.

Romania's president says his country respects Moldova's territorial integrity. Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin had accused Romania of trying to overthrow his government during violent protests in April.

Moldova's incumbent president, Vladimir Voronin, has said that an 'iron curtain' with the European Union should be raised on Moldova's border with Romania.

CHISINAU: Moldova's outgoing president said the very future of the ex-Soviet state was at stake in next month's parliamentary election and accused opposition parties yesterday of seeking its destruction.

Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin has told journalists that his country would not lift visa requirements for citizens of Romania, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports.

Reuters Russia on Monday threw its weight behind Moldova's outgoing President Vladimir Voronin, who will oversee an early parliamentary election next month, and said it could lend $500 million to the country.

Russia will give Moldova a $500 million loan, and the first tranche worth $150 million will be transferred to the republic in the near future, the Russian prime minister said on Monday.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev suggested to his Moldovan counterpart Vladimir Voronin to discuss measures of counteracting the financial crisis and also to discuss political and regional problems.

Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin arrives in Moscow on Monday for talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on bilateral relations and Moldova's upcoming elections.

Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin said Saturday his country has its own way of development, rather comfortable and realizable, and is not going to join NATO.

The Commonwealth of Independent States becomes a regional union capable to solve economic and social tasks, Moldovan Prime Minister Zinaida Greceanii said in the opening remarks at the 42nd session of the CIS Economic Council in Chisinau on Friday.

Outgoing Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin dissolved parliament on June 15 and called early elections for July 29.

Foreign ministers from the 27 EU member states faced a complex agenda as they met in Luxembourg, staking out cautious positions in response to developments in Iran and Israel.

Moldovaa s opposition scored a key victory in its battle with the countrya s president on Monday night, when he was forced to dissolve parliament, triggering the countrya s second parliamentary election in less than three months.

The European Union's special representative in Moldova says that the current political crisis in the country shows Moldova's need to press ahead "as seriously as possible" to reform its judiciary so that people can trust the court system.

Last Sunday cousins Rhonda Gillespie and Joanne Kelly held a dance hoping to raise funds to help them fulfil a dream.