Putin is mocking any kind of peace efforts. The only thing he understands is pressure. This is what we have to do. My doorstep ahead of the informal meetings of EU Defence and Foreign Ministers ↓

Moldova may open all negotiation clusters in the same year - something unprecedented- due to the high speed of aligning its legislation to EU legislation, EU Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos announced yesterday on Moldovan tv

Moldova’s electoral campaign officially starts today. On 28th September Moldovans will take to the polling stations to vote for the geopolitical direction the country will take for the next 4 years. Amongst people’s top concerns: the cost of living crisis & the war in Ukraine

Finally picked up my copy of @paulaerizanu.bsky.social’s new book about Moldovan history based on many interviews with people who have lived through the major events and changes of the last century. Can’t wait to read it!!

Starting today, Romania drops its price ceiling for electricity. This means energy bills will significantly go up; rising inflation; lower purchasing power. Moldova too will be affected by this, since Chisinau buys electricity on the Romanian market hotnews.ro/liberalizare...

Moldova’s ex chief anticorruption prosecutor Veronica Dragalin has been writing open letters to judges who did not make it through the vetting process on the political pressures on her regarding these cases www.zdg.md/stiri/dragal...

Moldovan president Maia Sandu gave a state of the nation speech in Parliament today outlining the success in preserving freedom and peace in a turbulent time and the need to protect this progress and continue integrate in the EU in the next 4 years presedinte.md/rom/presa/me...

Moldova will hold parliamentary elections on 28 September, the speaker of the Parliament Igor Grosu announced today. The poll is crucial for Moldova’s geopolitics and will determine whether the country can continue its EU integration or whether it will fall back in Russia’s orbit

Young Romanians are being recruited via Telegram by neonazis from Moldova linked to Russian fascist groups. They are encouraged to act violently towards minorities, antifascist activists, organisations + paedophiles. The process is gamified. The leader is currently in Germany 1/

Romanian government supported Crin Antonescu is the new favourite presidential candidate according to a recent poll by AtlasIntel. Far right George Simion would still win 1st round but CA would cap 2nd round. Previously polls saw reformist Bucharest mayor Nicușor Dan win the race

The FSB announced the detention of four "Ukrainian agents" recruited in Moldova. All these people were arrested in 2023-2024. News about the exposure of the "saboteurs" appeared against the backdrop of a diplomatic crisis between Moldova and Russia theins.ru/news/280520

Great news. Moldova’s Ziarul de Gardă undercover investigative reporters Măriuța Nistor and Natalia Zaharescu are shortlisted for the European Press Prize. Meanwhile, Moldovan indie media is under constant attack from pro-Russian, pro-oligarchic and even some pro-EU opposition

Moldova's ex minister of defense Anatol Șalaru won the case against Romanian presidential candidate George Simion. The latter sued Șalaru for his declarations that Simion had met up with Russian spies in Chernivtsi, an info confirmed by both Ukrainian and Moldovan intelligence

Big scandal in Moldova as criminals with life sentences have been freed following law amendments voted by governing party PAS. The party has blamed and excluded its member & MP Olesea Stamate for scheming this, saying that they had trusted her too much :/ www.zdg.md/importante/u...

TikTok admits 27,000 fake accounts supported Călin Georgescu & AUR’s electoral campaigns in Romania. Romanian prosecutors say Turkish IPs and Russian email addresses were used by troll farms to create 20,000 TikTok accounts that posted over 2 million comments in November 2024 1/

The self-proclaimed authorities of the de facto Russian occupied region of Transnistria propose bill to fine foreign journalists without official accreditation granted by them, including Moldovan journalists promolex.md/apel-public-...

Moldova has expelled three Russian diplomats as a result moldova.europalibera.org/a/r-moldova-...

Shor ally and Member of Parliament Irina Lozovan received a six year sentence for being involved in an illegal political financing scheme benefitting a criminal network. On similar charges her husband was also sentenced to five years in prison. They both went missing

Breaking: Shor ally & Moldovan Member of Parliament Alexandr Nesterovschi, sentenced to 12 years in prison for involvement in an illegal political financing scheme, fled justice in a Russian embassy car to Transnistria, said head of security services Alexandru Musteață

Saturday morning queues at the Leipzig Book Fair

More than 30 Moldovan mercenaries associated with Horațiu Potra were banned entry to Romania as they were heading to celebrate Călin Georgescu’s bday www.antena3.ro/actualitate/...

Vladimir Plahotniuc apparently has four citizenships, including a surprising Mexican passport

Romanian investigative reporters Victor Ilie & Luiza Vasiliu were surveilled by their targets with the help of Romanian law enforcement following their research into a moneylaundering scheme linked to the British American influencer Andrew Tate balkaninsight.com/2025/03/17/b...

The first major poll ahead of the Romanian presidential re-run says Georgescu far right allies George Simion or Anamaria Gavrila would win the first tour. But Bucharest reformist, pro-European mayor Nicușor Dan would top the second tour hotnews.ro/exclusiv-pri...

Romania’s Constitutional Court has allowed Georgescu ally George Simion to run for president, rejecting all 15 complaints against him hotnews.ro/o-noua-sedin...

10,000 people gathered in Bucharest today in the EuRo Manifest, a demonstration in support of Romania’s European identity & membership www.g4media.ro/miting-euro-...

Breaking: internationally sanctioned Moldovan oligarch Veaceslav Platon was arrested in the UK, at the request of Moldovan prosecutors, who are investigating him for money laundering, fraud www.zdg.md/stiri/politi...

The European Parliament is opening a bureau in Moldova www.jurnal.md/ro/news/3cc6...

Doina Nistor is Moldova’s new Minister of the Economy and Digitalisation, taking over from Dumitru Alaiba, who resigned today. Nistor previously led the USAID funded programme “Technologies of the Future”

The Romanian National School of Political and Administrative Studies (SNSPA) is nominating Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. SNSPA has been involved in filing the complaints against Georgescu at the Central Electoral Bureau last week & Constitutional Court in December 😳

Marta Kos, European Commissioner for Enlargement: "I will consider my mandate a failure if the Republic of Moldova does not complete the [EU] negotiations during this period. […] if you continue to move forward as you are doing now, it is possible that it will happen by 2029."

Romanian prosecutors have sent to court the file charging Georgescu ally Eugen Sechila, a neo-legionary leader, with making, holding, distributing fascist symbols hotnews.ro/eugen-sechil...

Moldova’s public broadcaster will soon launch a Russian language tv channel to address Russian speaking minorities, especially in Transnistria and Gagauzia, where Russian propaganda dominates agora.md/2025/03/12/t...

Final and expected decision: Călin Georgescu was banned from running for president by Romania’s Constitutional Court hotnews.ro/calin-george... Read an analysis on the situation here: kyivindependent.com/despite-russ...

"The decision [to ban Georgescu] was inevitable for the health of democracy, but this democracy will need deep repairs after elections in May” - read an analysis of the last developments in Romania kyivindependent.com/despite-russ...

The Moldovan internet bubble calls this pic of Maia Sandu and Emmanuel Macron “the nuclear umbrella”

Breaking: Călin Georgescu was not admitted into the presidential race by Romania’s Central Electoral Bureau, with 10 to 4 votes. Protesters in front of the institution reacted violently hotnews.ro/breaking-can...

The candidate proposed by the governing coalition made of Romanian historical parties PSD & PNL + Hungarian minority’s party UDMR, Crin Antonescu, formally registered for the presidential race, after reformist Bucharest mayor Nicușor Dan & extremist Călin Georgescu

NEW: I helped Brian Krebs trace the background of one of Elon Musk's top loyalists, Branden Spikes, head of IT at X, who spent 2 mo at DOGE. Spikes and his ex-wife were involved with Russian diaspora websites and groups linked to pro-Kremlin KSORS players, Russian state media while he was at SpaceX.

6 people have been detained for treason in Romania. Prosecutors accuse them of forming a military structure liaising with foreign agents, negotiating with Moscow Romania’s withdrawal from NATO, the dissolution of political parties, the annulment of constitutional order, changing state symbols

In his Congress speech, president Trump mentioned that the US spent $32 million on a “left wing propaganda operation” in Moldova. The “woke” left is teeny-tiny across Eastern Europe. That money went to Internews, an organisation supporting sustainable media across the region 1/

Breaking: Romania declares the military attaché of the Russian Embassy in Bucharest and his deputy persona non grata for carrying out activities in contravention of the provisions of the Vienna Convention 1/

Moving pics from yesterday’s 33rd commemoration of the 1992 Russo-Moldovan war on the Nistru river, where hundreds lost their lives & which resulted in an ongoing frozen conflict, poverty, repression, breaches of human rights in the Kremlin-controlled region of Transnistria

Romanian prosecutors say Călin Georgescu, who declared zero spending in presidential elections, received cash from and rented a limousine via Horațiu Potra, who runs a mercenary group in Congo. Prosecutors also say Potra plotted a violent state overthrow www.g4media.ro/breaking-pro...

The Tate brothers left Romania for the US on a private jet today at 6am, after American pressure on Romanian government to allow them to travel while they’re being investigated for human trafficking, organised crime, rape, moneylaundering in Romania m.mediafax.ro/social/andre...

The great problem Moldovan governing party PAS seems to have is that MPs don’t consult even fellow members of government when drafting laws. The Justice Minister admitted there were cases when bills meant to reform the judiciary were proposed without her knowledge www.youtube.com/live/khCDLta...

Meet Moldova’s new energy minister, Dorin Junghietu. An oil expert, he got the top job at Moldovagaz last year but Gazprom never signed it off. He is meant to oversee the completion of the Chisinau-Vulcanesti power line this year, hasten green energy & energy efficiency projects

Breaking: Moldova’s anticorruption prosecutor Veronica Dragalin resigns in protest against a bill by governing party PAS that would dismantle the structure she led + prosecution investigating organised crime and create a new structure. She says the change would benefit criminals

Moldova is closing down Russian cultural centres following the trespassing of its aerial space by Russian drones last night. Pictured: the Russian designated ambassador to Moldova presented with remnants from the drones today

In last night’s attack on Ukraine, Russian drones have flown and fallen over southern Moldova, authorities say. Their noise was reported last night by Moldovans living in the southern region www.zdg.md/stiri/mai-mu...