Moldova moved closer to early elections that could push it back into Russia’s fold after its president and a coalition of largely pro-EU parties failed on January 13 to compromise over who could pull the country out of a protracted government crisis.
Protesters for and against the naming of controversial oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc as the next prime minister of Moldova faced off in the capital Chisinau. (RFE/RL's Moldovan Service)
Moldova's parliament has failed to approve a new government because not enough lawmakers turned up for the vote, further extending the political deadlock in the former Soviet republic.
The Moldovan Constitutional Court upheld the nomination of Ion Sturza to be the nation's next prime minister in a unanimous ruling on December 29.
The candidate to become Moldova's next prime minister is pledging to purge the government of the corruption that led to a major banking scandal this year.
Moldovan President Nicolae Timofti has asked a pro-Western businessman and former prime minister to form a new cabinet amid a protracted political and economic crisis in the former Soviet republic.
In 1949, Soviet forces deported dozens of families from Andrei Vulpe's village in present-day Moldova. Then a young man on the village council, he was forced to take part. More than 60 years later, he still grapples with guilt.
Moldovan Foreign Minister Natalia Gherman has called on Russia to withdraw its troops from the breakaway Transdniester region.
For Moldova's Roma minority, getting access to higher education can be a challenge.
Moldovan supporters of reunification with Romania placed flowers at a monument in Chisinau on Romania's National Day, while a counterprotest took place in support of continuing Moldovan independence. (RFE/RL's Moldovan Service)
Thousands of people gathered in Chisinau in the latest sign of the political turmoil that has gripped Moldova. (RFE/RL's Moldovan Service)
In Moldova's breakaway region of Transdniester, the ruling Obnovlenie (Renovation) party appears to have won a landslide victory in general elections that were held on November 29.
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