Sources: ITAR TASS
The Moldovan parliament votes to close a Russian cultural center, citing security concerns and recent Russian drone incursions. 2025-11-27
The European Union formally launches accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova. 2024-06-25
European Union member states agree to begin negotiations on the accession of Moldova and Ukraine to the EU next week. 2024-06-21
Officials in the Russia-backed breakaway region of Transnistria, internationally recognised as a part of Moldova, appeal to the Russian Duma for more intervention in Transnistria amid increasing tension with the government of Moldova. 2024-02-28
Russian Major general Rustam Minnekayev says that the goal of the military operation is now to seize territory in Southern Ukraine in order to create a land corridor from Crimea to Ukraine's border with Transnistria, a pro-Russian unrecognized breakaway state that is internationally recognized as part of Moldova. 2022-04-22
A Moldovan-flagged chemical tanker is hit by a missile near the Port of Odesa, seriously injuring two crew members, according to Moldova's naval agency. It is unclear who launched the missile. 2022-02-25
Moldova suspends all schools, universities and colleges for two weeks in order to prevent the spread of the virus. 2020-03-11
Protests continue in Moldova as thousands of anti-government protesters demonstrate in the capital Chișinău despite concessions given to the protesters last month by the government. 2016-04-24
Thousands of people rally in the streets of Chișinău, the capital of Moldova, demanding reunification with Romania. The rally is meant to mark the 98th anniversary since the former Romanian province of Bessarabia was unified with the Kingdom of Romania on March 27, 1918. The protesters say unification with Romania is the way for corruption-ridden Moldova to move forward and join the European Union. 2016-03-27
Moldova's Council for TV and Radio suspends the broadcast license of the Russian TV channel Russia-24 and places sanctions on four Moldovan broadcasters for lack of pluralism. 2014-07-6