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A woman exiting a voting booth waits in line to cast her vote during a parliamentary election, in Chisinau, Moldova, September 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
September 28, 2025, 9:54 am
Moldovans vote in tense election plagued by Russian interference claims
Diaspora vote expected to be pivotal in determining whether landlocked nation of 2.5 million lets pro-EU governing party maintain its solid majority in parliament
By STEPHEN McGRATH
People wave Romanian and European Union flags during a pro-European rally in Bucharest, Romania, December 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
December 7, 2024, 12:34 am
Romania’s top court voids first-round presidential vote won by far-right candidate
Ruling comes after pro-EU president declassified intel on alleged Russian campaign to help Calin Georgescu win; reformist challenger in runoff slams ‘illegal, immoral’ decision
By STEPHEN McGRATH
Israeli-born Moldovan Ilan Shor in 2016. (Wikipedia/Privesc.Eu Moldoval; CC BY-SA 3.0)
February 17, 2023, 2:42 pm
Facebook ran ads in Moldova for Israeli-born oligarch sanctioned by US Treasury
Social media giant allowed promotion of convicted fraudster Ilan Shor, implicated in $1 billion theft from Moldovan banks in 2014 and accused by Washington of working for Moscow
By David Klepper and STEPHEN McGRATH
Moldovan Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita announces her resignation during a news conference in Chisinau, Moldova, February 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Aurel Obreja)
February 10, 2023, 3:29 pm
Pro-Western Moldovan prime minister resigns, government collapses
PM Gavrilita blames crises stemming from ‘Russian aggression in Ukraine’; country’s president will conduct consultations and appoint new PM candidate
By CRISTIAN JARDAN and STEPHEN McGRATH
A view of the damaged building of the Ministry of State Security, in Tiraspol, the capital of the breakaway region of Transnistria, a disputed territory unrecognized by the international community, in Moldova, April 25, 2022. (Ministry of Internal Affairs of Transnistria via AP)
December 19, 2022, 11:47 pm
Moldova warns Russia may launch offensive to form corridor to breakaway region
Country’s intelligence chief says Putin could seek ‘land corridor’ through south Ukraine to Moscow-backed Transnistria; his agency clarifies that remarks are only an ‘analysis’
By CRISTIAN JARDAN and STEPHEN McGRATH
Ilan Shor at a press conference February 25, 2019, following national elections in Moldova. (Facebook: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 9, 2022, 7:37 pm
Israeli-Moldovan one of two oligarchs sanctioned by UK for corruption
Ilan Shor and Vladimir Plahotniuc fled Moldova in 2019 after being implicated in a $1bn bank fraud and other illicit schemes; Shor living in Israel
By STEPHEN McGRATH and CRISTIAN JARDAN
People chant slogans during a protest in Chisinau, Moldova, Nov. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Aurel Obreja)
November 14, 2022, 10:37 am
Energy crisis, inflation draw thousands of anti-government protesters in Moldova
Demonstrations initiated by the populist Shor Party headed by US-sanctioned oligarch Ilan Shor, currently in exile in Israel, have rocked the country in recent months
By CRISTIAN JARDAN and STEPHEN McGRATH
An actor of the Romania's Jewish State Theatre rehearses the musical drama 'The Lights of the Ghetto,' a mix of music and stories by Holocaust survivors in Bucharest, Romania, January 26, 2019. (AP Photo/ Vadim Ghirda, File)
February 7, 2022, 2:42 am
A lesser known history: Romania’s key role in Holocaust explored in new book
Decades under a communist regime erased the memory of Romania’s position as a principal Nazi ally in oppression and murder of Jews
By STEPHEN McGRATH
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