Maia Sandu

Experts from the Venice Commission, an advisory body of the Council of Europe composed of independent experts on constitutional law, warned that new legislation strengthening the powers of Moldova's Information and Security Service's could have a negative effect on democracy in the country.

CHISINAU - Moldovan President Maia Sandu said on Wednesday she had had a productive telephone conversation with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic about security aspects in Moldova and that Chisinau would continue to cooperate closely with Belgrade to prevent threats to Moldova's security.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic spoke by telephone with Moldovan President Maia Sandu on Wednesday.

Vucic and Sandu expressed mutual support for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of their countries, as well as interest in development of Serbia-Moldova bilateral ties to mutual benefit, the press office of the president of Serbia said in a statement.

BELGRADE - In a telephone conversation with Moldovan FM Nicu Popescu, Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic said Belgrade determinedly rejected any insinuations about potential involvement of Serbian citizens in potential violent developments in Moldova, as stated by Moldovan President Maia Sandu.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic has refuted in the strongest terms a statement by Moldovan President Maia Sandu about potential involvement of Serbian citizens in subversive actions aimed at destabilising Moldova, according to alleged Ukrainian information about Russian plans.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov again threatened Chisinau, saying that "the West has already set its sights on the Republic of Moldova to play the role of the next Ukraine" and that Maia Sandu "is ready, practically, for almost anything, including an alliance with Romania", reported the "Romania Journal", quoting the Moldovan television TVR.

PM Maia Sandu and her cabinet are facing a pincer movement from a party led by a fugitive oligarch and the pro-Russian Socialists - both of which want her pro-Western government gone.

Moldova's pro-Western President Maia Sandu said on Wednesday that she does not understand why Russia imposed a new embargo on Moldovan fruits on August 15, as her country's goods meet EU quality standards that are higher than Russian standards.

"Not only will we lose useful economic relations with our partners in the East due to the Russophobic policy we are pursuing together with the West, but we also risk losing some of our territories," Dodon announced on Telegram, reports TASS.
He assessed that, as a result, Moldova could disappear as an independent state.

Moldovan president Maia Sandu on Sunday promulgated the Informational Security Law, which will ban the broadcast in Moldova of Russian TV news and political analysis.

The law, designed to counter Russian propaganda about the war in Ukraine, says that the ban will still apply after the expiration of the state of emergency established in Moldova after Russia invaded Ukraine.