It was something I had asked myself on arriving in the capital, Chișinău, late one Monday evening. The streets were dark and ...

The largest country in the world today is Russia, with about 11% of the global landmass. It was far exceeded by the British ...

Sandu, who framed the vote as a choice for the former Soviet country between pursuing its nascent European future or remaining lodged within the Kremlin’s orbit, said the results meant Moldova ...

With all votes counted by Monday evening, the "yes" vote for future EU membership emerged with a wafer-thin majority of 50.46%, according to Moldova's electoral commission. Pro-Russian parties had ...

Moldova has narrowly voted for closer ties to the European Union in a referendum dominated by claims of Russian interference. The yes campaign had 50.39% of votes with just a handful of ballots ...

Yes' vote edges Moldova's EU referendum in tight finish President Maia Sandu alleges 'unprecedented' meddling Russia says vote was not free, casts doubt on result EU says Moldova has shown it ...

Moldova, an eastern European country of some 2.5 million people sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine, has veered between pro-Western and pro-Russian courses since the end of the Cold War. Russia ...

"There are people who genuinely do not understand what the EU is about and what this is going to bring to Moldova. And then there are people who just sold their votes," said Sandu during a packed ...

Moldova has voted "yes" to joining the European Union with the tiniest of majorities—meaning the former Soviet republic has narrowly agreed to move politically closer to the West and away from ...

By Andrew Higgins A referendum in Moldova intended to put an end to decades of swerving between East and West yielded a microscopic win on Monday for voters who favor amending the Constitution to ...

Maia Sandu, Moldova’s president since 2020, has emerged as one of the most widely admired leaders in the swathe of eastern Europe once directly governed or heavily controlled by the Soviet Union.