Moldova

The third suspension of Moldova's President, Igor Dodon, by the Constitutional Court has created new friction between Dodon and his Socialist Party, the most popular party in the country and second largest force in the parliament.

Dodon's suspension came after he created an institutional blockage by twice refusing to appoint new ministers in the pro-EU government.

Many politicians in Moldova have attracted thousands of "likes" on their Facebook pages, hinting at their great popularity among the masses.

However, a media probe has uncovered that a suspicious number of these "likes" come from far-away countries with which Moldova has little or no connection.

Moldova's Constitutional Courts of Moldova has approved the third temporary suspension from office in three months of the country's pro-Russian president, Igor Dodon.

Moldova's National Bank on Thursday said Russian investors no longer hold first place among foreign investors in the country, in terms of direct investment in domestic economic stock.

Citing new data, it said that The Netherlands and Spain took first and second place in the ranking of foreign investors. Third place went to France, followed by Cyprus and Romania.

President Igor Dodon on Thursday has caused a fresh confrontation with the pro-Western government after, for a second time, he rejected all the candidates for ministerial posts submitted by Prime Minister Filip Pavel.

A government reshuffle on December 19 brought on board seven new members and only four ministers kept their seats.

Russia's authorities have failed in their attempt to get Interpol to put the leader of the pro-Western ruling party in Moldova, Democrat Party leader Vlad Plahotniuc, on the international wanted list, the news portal deschide.md said on Thursday after receiving an official answer from the Ministry of Interior.

The National Bank of Moldova on Thursday published a detailed summary of the second investigative report by US company Kroll and Steptoe & Johnson, which backs prosecution claims that the banker and mayor of the town of Orhei Ilan Shor was behind the huge bank fraud that rocked the country in 2014.

With the support of 55 out of 101 MPs, Moldova's parliament on Thursday named Vitalie Pirlog, a man with strong Communist Party links, as the new head of the country's security and intelligence service, the SIS.

The first regular scheduled flight Sofia - Odessa - Sofia, where Bulgaria Air is assigned, will be executed tomorrow.

Every week - on Fridays and Sundays - flights will take place in both directions.

The volume of trade between Turkey and Moldova rose by nine times in the last 15 years, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Hakan Cavuşoğlu said on Dec. 19 in the Moldovan capital Chisinau.