Now her resolve faces its ultimate test. For 30 years, since independence on the break-up of the Soviet Union, Moldova has been a “buffer”, she says, between Russia and the west.

But with the end of the Soviet Union, Moldova, like other Republics, gained independence, and post-Soviet Russia's embrace has been difficult to shake off, particularly with Vladimir Putin and the ...

Moldova is to alter the three-letter international abbreviation for Chisinau airport, a government minister said on Thursday, a new bid to distance itself from its Soviet legacy and dependence on ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was invited as special guest at the opening ceremony of the Danish EU presidency, ...

The struggle to save Gagauz, a Turkic tongue used by dwindling numbers of people in an ethnic enclave of Moldova, reflects the emotional power of language loyalties across the former Soviet Union.

Sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine, Moldova has veered between pro-Western and pro-Russian courses since it emerged as an independent country from the ruins of the Soviet Union.

A look at recent events in Moldova: WHAT ARE ITS TIES TO MOSCOW AND THE EU? Once part of the Soviet Union, Moldova declared its independence in 1991.

Moldova, after all, in 2001 became the first former member of the Soviet Union to democratically elect a Communist government – albeit a socially-conservative one which initially sought cordial ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived at a sprawling summit of some 50 European leaders in Moldova, becoming the focal point of an event that seeks to quell regional conflicts and ...

Moldova is to alter the three-letter international abbreviation for Chisinau airport, a government minister said on Thursday, a new bid to distance itself from its Soviet legacy and dependence on ...