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After leaving office, former President of Moldova Ihor Dodon relies on allowance from Kremlin-associated oligarchs

The past week underscores a rising threat in Europe from Russia’s savage assault on Ukraine: the Kremlin’s parallel destabilization of tiny Moldova, between Ukraine and Romania. The Kremlin is escalating a hybrid subversion campaign against Moldova’s effort to build a stable democracy and join the European Union. It is choking off vital gas supplies to tank the economy, sponsoring mass anti-government protests and helping a fugitive Moldovan oligarch launch the latest of several pro-Russia...

The Rise.md findings show that Igor Dodon has in recent months received payments in rubles from the kremlin-linked association Entrepreneurial Russia.

Moldova’s Newsmaker media outlet on Monday released a story compiled by the RISE Moldova community of Moldovan and Romanian investigative journalists and Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Dossier Center alleging that cooperation between the Moldovan-Russian Business Union and Russia’s public organization Business Russia is geared towards stopping the West’s influence on Moldova

Ilan Shor is a shady businessman, convicted of fraud in connection with the biggest bank heist ever in Moldova. Now, Russia's Federal Security Service is allegedly bankrolling the Israeli-based oligarch to destabilize the former Soviet republic.

In June, as the EU mulled and finally granted Moldova candidate status for membership in the bloc, small anti-government protests began in Moldova's c

When thousands of protesters gathered last month outside Moldovas presidential palace calling for the countrys pro-Western leader to step down, the man behind the demonstration - an opposition party leader in exile in Israel - soon received plaudits from Moscow.

Moldova will not be able to become a member of the European Union in the foreseeable future, former Moldovan President Igor Dodon told Sputnik.Moldova will not be a member of the EU, neither today, nor tomorrow, nor in the foreseeable future, Dodon said.Dodon pointed to numerous countries which ha ..

The Moldovan authorities can use the constitutional court to deploy NATO troops in the country at any time, despite the states neutrality, former President Igor Dodon said in an interview with Sputnik.In 2016-2017, the Constitutional Court of Moldova adopted a ruling, in line with which the status ..

<p><span>Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action to counter the Government of the Russian Federation’s (GoR) persistent malign influence campaigns and systemic corruption in Moldova by imposing sanctions on nine individuals and 12 entities. The individuals and entities sanctioned today include oligarchs widely recognized for capturing and corrupting Moldova’s political and economic institutions and thos...