Putin's wars are all wars of choice, pursued for imperialist restoration, out of a position of strength and expected impunity. One of Russia's greatest propaganda achievements convincing the bulk of American pundits and IR folks that it fights out of fear, humiliation, and prevention.
Many in Moldovan civil society criticised ruling party PAS’s decision to change the law & allow for the head of the vetting commission to be voted in by 51 rather than 61 Members of Parliament. Now the European Commission says Moldova should have consulted the Venice Commission
If in London, come discover bestselling Moldovan/Romanian author Tatiana Țîbuleac, whose powerful novels have been translated in 17 languages. I'll be joining the discussion this Friday, 13th March, at 5-7pm, at University College London. Register here:
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Some nice personal news: I’m on the short list for the EU Prize for Literature for my book “It’s Both Heaven and Hell Here. Moldova: a Century of Lived History”. The winner will be announced in Warsaw in May 🥳
Nine people holding political positions in the Russian-controlled region of Transnistria have been stripped of their Moldovan citizenship
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Moldovan humour. Steven the Great is our national icon, who holds the cross in his hand in the middle of Chisinau, for he founded many monasteries as he fought the occupying Turks in the Middle Ages. And the wine, well, you know we make great wines. Always happy to explain jokes
Among the conditions put forward by the EU in a Russia-Ukraine peace deal, Russia would be banned military presence in Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Armenia, as well as electoral interference and hybrid operations
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One of the EU’s conditions for a peace deal between Moscow and Kyiv is for Russia to withdraw its troops from Moldova’s region of Transnistria, according to Kaja Kallas www.svoboda.org/a/kallas-pre...
The assassins were promised hundreds of thousands of euros in crypto moldova.europalibera.org/a/enigma-2-0...
Ukrainian & Moldovan police carried investigations into Russian operations to assassinate high profile Ukrainian officials yesterday.
President Sandu revoked the 2022 decree which pardoned one of the suspects, who first served in a Russian prison
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Tensions between the Russian and Romanian Churches in Moldova have taken over a chapel in the village of Dereneu split between the two entities. Three of the priests on the frontline of this conflict were trained by Shor in Moscow anticoruptie.md/ro/investiga...
Estonia’s intelligence report 2026: Russia’s attempt to topple Moldova’s pro-Western government has failed, but it will not be the last: the Kremlin will almost certainly learn from its mistakes and make another attempt to hijack Moldova’s statehood.
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It’s not all roses but the angle is interesting
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More here
Postcards from Moldova’s National Olympics Committee
Chisinau mayor Ion Ceban’s links to the Russian secret services are once again in the spotlight in this fresh investigation from Moldovan thinktank WatchDog. Ceban says he is pro-European, while being banned in the Schengen area for security reasons
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Hilarious www.threads.com/@victorpatra...
AUR paid them $100k, a fifth of the total contract. The firm never returned the money although it failed to provide the promised services 2/
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Romania’s populist party AUR has sued the lobby firm BGD Legal & Consulting LLC for over $4.5 million for failing to organise its leader George Simion a meeting with Trump, JD Vance or other top American officials during the electoral campaign & obtain a Politico article on it 1/
Romania has exported armament worth 35 million euros to Israel in 2025, a journalistic investigation from Snoop shows. Commercial flights operated by state airline Tarom and independent airline HiSky transported weapons next to passengers’ luggage snoop.ro/drumul-armel...
Estonia is opening an embassy in Moldova, said Chisinau Parliament speaker Igor Grosu www.zdg.md/stiri/estoni...
Large parts of Moldova have been experiencing blackouts over the past few hours due to Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Emergency help is coming from Romania. Temperatures outside are -5 degrees Celsius
“If you look at Moldova across all sorts of indices, it's on top of everything. It's impressive progress, with an overhaul of the judicial system, the anticorruption institutions, and the party system”
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Former MP & kickboxer Constantin Țuțu, an ally of the Moldovan oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc, was sentenced to 8 years in prison for fraud, falsehood,
influence peddling. Last week, another Plahotniuc ally, businessman & judoko Dorin Damir, received a 3-year sentence for forgery
Iranians were promised US help and they took to the streets because they were promised that help. Now thousands have died and that is also Donald Trump’s responsibility - Iranian-Romanian architect & activist Omid Ghannadi on Euronews today
Maia Sandu’s declaration that she supports Moldova’s reunification with Romania “was forced as an assessment: if the international order changes from a liberal to a ‘realist’ one, Moldova has to choose how it disappears”. My piece for @KyivIndependent
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