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Dec 6, 2024 | 
adn.com | Madalin Necsutu |Mădălin Necșuțu |Anthony Faiola
BUCHAREST, Romania - The Constitutional Court took the extraordinary step of annulling Romania’s presidential election Friday after the country’s security services assessed that the nation had been the target of “Russian hybrid actions” that used TikTok to promote a candidate who has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Madalin Necsutu |Mădălin Necșuțu |Anthony Faiola
BUCHAREST, Romania - The Constitutional Court on Friday took the extraordinary step of annulling Romania's president election after the country's security services assessed that the nation had been the target of "Russian hybrid actions."The ruling rippled across Europe, where the continent's leaders have been closely watching the highly-charged race to determine the future of a strategically important NATO member. The court canceled Sunday's run off and invalidated a Nov.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Madalin Necsutu |Mădălin Necșuțu
Maia Sandu called her victory in Moldova’s presidential election on Sunday “a lesson in democracy”, but analysts argue it was only one battle in a bigger war against alleged Russian interference. Sandu, the pro-European incumbent, defeated her pro-Russian challenger, Alexandr Stoianoglo, 55.3 per cent to 44.7 in a vote she and the Moldovan government said was marred by an unprecedented vote-buying and propaganda effort orchestrated from Russia.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Madalin Necsutu |Mădălin Necșuțu
Maia Sandu gives a press briefing in front of a polling station in Chisinau on November 3, 2024. Photo: Maia Sandu/Facebook. Incumbent Maia Sandu has won the second round of Moldova’s presidential election on Sunday, defeating former prosecutor general Alexandr Stoianoglo, the independent candidate backed by the main pro-Russian opposition Socialist Party. “Freedom, truth and justice have won,” Sandu told a press briefing.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Madalin Necsutu |Mădălin Necșuțu
Moldovans on November 3 will choose between two presidential candidates, the current pro-European incumbent, Maia Sandu, or the former prosecutor general, Alexandr Stoianoglo, with the decision likely to seal the country’s strategic orientation – towards the EU or Russia.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Madalin Necsutu |Mădălin Necșuțu
National Anticorruption Centre officers investigating electoral fraud allegations on October 29 in Comrat in the Gagauzia region. Photo: CNA/Facebook. Moldova’s National Anticorruption Centre, CNA, said on Wednesday it has imposed fines worth over 2 million lei [over 100,000 euros] for electoral corruption just four days before the second round of the presidential election in which the pro-Western incumbent, Maia Sandu, is fighting to secure a second term.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Madalin Necsutu |Mădălin Necșuțu
Alexandr Stoianoglo has shrugged off a slew of corruption allegations to go head-to-head for the post of Moldovan president on November 3 with the woman who gave him his marching orders as Moldova’s top prosecutor two years ago. A former MP and Prosecutor-General, 57-year-old Stoianoglo is the candidate of the pro-Russian Socialist Party, PSRM, in the presidential run-off against pro-European incumbent Maia Sandu, 52.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Madalin Necsutu |Mădălin Necșuțu
Moldovan president Maia Sandu votes at a polling station in Chisinau on Sunday. Photo: Maia Sandu/Facebook. The incumbent president of Moldova, Maia Sandu, and former prosecutor-general Alexandr Stoianoglo, who is running on behalf of the pro-Russian Party of Socialists of Moldova, will compete in a second round of presidential elections next month, it became clear on Monday after 98.87 per cent of the votes were counted.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Madalin Necsutu |Mădălin Necșuțu
Ilan Shor (R) with Kremlin-linked philosopher Alexander Dugin in St. Petersburg, June 2024. Photo: Ilan Shor/FacebookSources inside Moldovan security institutions with direct knowledge of the investigation into the alleged subversion training gave more details on Friday about their claims that dozens of people from Moldova have been trained in destabilisation techniques in camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Madalin Necsutu |Mădălin Necșuțu
Moldova is heading to simultaneous presidential elections and a referendum on the country’s European integration on Sunday, which will shape the small ex-Soviet country's future in the context of fierce competition between West and East, experts say. The twin votes will see Moldova’s geopolitical future defined against the background of the war that Russia is waging against Ukraine, during which Moldova has applied for and been granted EU membership candidate status.
