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The Kremlin continues to pursue its longstanding hybrid warfare efforts to regain effective control of the territories of the former Soviet Union even as it seeks to gain control of Ukraine through military force. The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine is, in fact, supporting Russian hybrid warfare efforts in former …

A narrow victory for the “yes” camp in Moldova’s referendum on the EU is not exactly the result that pro-EU President Maia Sandu was hoping for. By calling for the referendum, the Soviet-born and Moldovan- and U.S.-educated Sandu was hoping to capitalize on EU support and largesse, as well as …

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to Moldova, pledging $135 million to enhance energy security and counter Russian disinformation during his visit to Chisinau. During Wednesday’s visit, Blinken announced that up to $85 million in USAID funding will subsidize equipment to strengthen Moldova’s national …

Le conflit ukrainien aurait signifié un retour à la guerre froide entre la Russie et les États-Unis et un retour à la doctrine de l’endiguement, dont les fondements ont été posés par George F. Kennan dans son essai «The Sources of Soviet Behaviour» publié dans le magazine Foreign Affairs en …

Gagauzia, a small (140,000-strong) Christian Turkic and pro-Russian autonomous region in Moldova, is on its way to becoming a new hotspot in Eastern Europe that could trigger a direct confrontation between Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). A month ago, Yevgenia Gutsul, Gagauzia’s bashkan (head), met with Russian …

There’s been talk since Moldova’s independence of merging with Romania on the basis of their shared ethno-linguistic heritage and to return to the latter’s interwar “natural” borders. Some also speculate that Moldovan President Maia Sandu and her team are dual citizens of Romania who are secretly trying to advance what …

Work has begun on expanding the Mihail Kogalniceanu base in Romania, transforming it into the largest NATO military base in Europe. The military base at Mihail Kogqlniceanu, Constanta, southeast Romania, on the Black Sea coast, will become the largest NATO military base in Europe and will surpass the US military …

This project is a much bigger deal than most observers have realized since it’ll play an important role in shaping the EU and NATO’s post-conflict future upon the inevitable end of their proxy war on Russia. Romanian media recently reported that their country is building the so-called “Moldova Highway” (MH) …

An extraordinary parliamentary session in Transnistria was a bid to attract international attention and a signal that the de facto state is ready to escalate. The longer the war in Ukraine continues, the more confident neighboring Moldova’s authorities feel in their long-running conflict with the breakaway state of Transnistria. Moldova …

Moldovan President Maia Sandu is going all in on EU integration successes as she looks to win presidential elections in the fall. The second half of 2024 will be a tense time for Moldova, with a presidential election scheduled for the fall in which President Maia Sandu will seek reelection. …