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European Union member states agree to begin negotiations on the accession of Moldova and Ukraine to the EU next week.
2024-06-21

Two people are killed and another is injured after a man opens fire at the Chișinău International Airport in Chișinău, Moldova. The perpetrator is injured and detained.
2023-06-30

The Moldovan parliament approves a law that formally declares the country's official language as Romanian.
2023-03-16

Russia bans the import of agricultural products from Moldova from August 15 due to "repeated detection of dangerous quarantine objects in Moldovan products entering Russia".
2022-08-9

The European Union formally awards official candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova.
2022-06-23

Moldova enters a 60-day state of emergency to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Acting Prime Minister Aureliu Ciocoi says that the rate of infection has increased to 635 per 100,000 people.
2021-04-1

Romania donates 21,600 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine to Moldova for use in their vaccination program which will begin next week with frontline health workers.
2021-02-27

The second round of presidential elections takes place in Moldova.
2020-11-15

Romania offers neighboring Moldova a $65 million (60 million euros) loan to help stave off economic collapse and keep the former Soviet Republic on a pro-European course, provided the Moldovan government implements major reforms. Government funds were needed to cover more than $1 billion that "disappeared" from three Moldovan banks in November 2014. In the frigid capital Chișinău, 15,000 people from both the pro-European and pro-Russian sides of the political divide, protested on Sunday against the current government and demanded new elections. Prime Minister Pavel Filip, who took office last week, is the country's sixth PM in a year.
2016-01-26

An FBI investigation has reportedly found that criminal networks specializing in nuclear smuggling in Eastern Europe, particularly in the nation of Moldova, have shipped radioactive material to 'Middle Eastern extremists', including the Islamic State (which in the recent past has threatened to unleash a nuclear holocaust to 'wipe the West off the face of the Earth').
2015-10-7