Moldova News

Zach Sands holds his son Alexander, 4 months, before dinner at their Sycamore home on Thursday July 2, 2009.

Southern regions of Moldova provide active harvesting field works of grains and peas.

The plane will arrive in Varna at 9 am local time, and will departure at 9.50 am local time.

Swedish Ambassador to Romania Mats Aberg has said in Bucharest that as head of the European Union this year, Sweden will do everything it can to get Moldova to abolish visa requirements for Romanians, RFE/RL's Moldova Service reports.

At the present time there are no prospects of settling Transdniestrian-Moldovan relations and it would make no sense to resume dialogue between the two before elections in Moldova, said Igor Smirnov, president of the self-proclaimed republic of Transdniestria.

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.