Chisinau

Moldova's pro-Russian President Igor Dodon said on Tuesday that Russian Patriarch Kirill will visit Moldova from October 27 to 28 - a shorter visit than the four-day trip that was initially announced.

The Russian Patriarch has cancelled his planned sermon in Tiraspol in the breakaway region of Transnistria.

The European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, AFET, on Tuesday adopted a highly critical resolution on Moldova, saying it has been "captured by oligarchic interests" and adding that the EU should no longer aid the country at least until after next year's elections.

A real and serious problem in the Republic of Moldova is Russian propaganda, in the context in which Kremlin's policy is that of keeping the region in the eastern vicinity (of the European and Euro-Atlantic space - ed.n) in a so-called grey area, the Action and Solidarity Party (PAS) leader, Maia Sandu, said in a debate on the situation of security in the eastern vicinity of the Euro-At

AGERPRES special correspondent Florentina Peia reports: President Klaus Iohannis had a bilateral meeting in New York on Thursday on the high-level segment of the 73rd Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova, Pavel Filip, in which they discussed the ways of deepening and expanding bilateral cooperation within the framework of the

Igor Dodon announced on Tuesday that his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan will make an official visit to Chisinau from October 17-18 for the opening of the presidential palace in Chisinau, which was renovated with funds from Ankara.

Conservative Serbs and Croats - normally at odds - came together in Moldova at the weekend to denounce gay rights, abortion and the decline of family values at the socially conservative World Family Congress in Chisinau.

Moldova will host on Friday and Saturday a gathering of conservative, anti-gay and anti-abortion Christian groups called the World Congress of Families under the auspices of pro-Russian President Igor Dodon.

Also, the event has the support of the benefit fund of Igor Dodon`s wife, Galina Dodon, an NGO which allegedly conducts some political driven social campaigns.

After Moldova's President, Igor Dodon, was involved in a car accident on Sunday, some pro-Russian Socialist deputies have claimed that he was the victim of a murder attempt.

"This was not an accident but a direct blow to the car. This is an attempt at murder!" Socialist deputy Vlad Batrincea wrote on Facebook.

Moldova's Prime Minister, Pavel Filip, and the Speaker of Parliament, Andrian Candu, both members of the ruling Democratic Party, on Thursday summoned the heads of the country's intelligence service for a hearing in parliament.

Turkish pro-government media on Thursday said the Turkish intelligence service, the MIT, had participated in the detaining of six Turkish nationals that morning in Moldova and had taken them into an unknown direction.