Moldova’s new prime minister has continued the government’s pro-EU drive, but pro-Russian protests have since taken place in the capital, Chisinau, backed by a fringe, pro-Moscow political party.

Moldova wants to start membership negotiations with the European Union in earnest before a September election to counter ...

Pro-Russian rebels in a separatist sliver of Moldova have asked President Vladimir Putin to protect their region from what they claim are threats from Moldova’s pro-Western government.

CHISINAU, Moldova—At a padlocked storeroom here in the Moldovan capital, under close police guard, sits a mound of pro-Russian propaganda that authorities say was part of an unprecedented Moscow ...

Russian-backed separatists split from Moldova as the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s, winning de facto independence for the region of some 450,000 people known as Transdniestria.

Moscow also continues to back Transnistria, a breakaway republic in eastern Moldova, where the Kremlin helps to maintain a presence of some 1,500 troops and a frozen conflict has lingered for over ...

Since Moldova's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Moscow has continued to wield considerable influence in the small country of 2.6 million people -- most significantly by exploiting ...

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Sandwiched between Ukraine and Romania, the country of Moldova has often been at the center of a struggle between Moscow and the ...

Just last weekend, Moscow hosted a conference for pro-Russian Moldovan opposition leaders, who announced a new election bloc ahead of Moldova’s October presidential elections. The main pro ...

Moldova’s new prime minister has continued the government’s pro-EU drive, but pro-Russian protests have since taken place in the capital, Chisinau, backed by a fringe, pro-Moscow political party.

Sandwiched between Ukraine and Romania, the country of Moldova has often been at the center of a struggle between Moscow and the West. It finds itself in that uncomfortable position again. On ...