Moldova

Moldova's Foreign Ministry has denied Russian claims that an exhibition of two train carriages, recalling three waves of deportations of the local population during Soviet times in the 1940s and 1950s, is evidence of  "Russophobia ".

Personal bellongings and photos of people who the Soviets deported from Moldova to Siberian gulags. Photo: Moldovan Government Facebook

The director of the Moldovan Intelligence and Security Service, SIS, Alexandru Musteata, said on Monday that his institution he leads and the Prosecutor's Office for Combating Organised Crime and Special Cases, PCCOCS, had dismantled an FSB spy network in the country.

Expanding investment in Moldova's under-developed road infrastructure is providing a lifeline for Ukrainian exports - but more is needed.

Thorny Evidence

Man makes a phone call with a smartphone (illustration). Photo: EPA-EFE/YAHYA ARHAB

In February 2021, an operation by French and Dutch police cracked the code to the Sky ECC app, allowing investigators to scoop up a wealth of evidence against a range of organized crime groups across the world. Among them were many criminal groups in the Balkans as well.

This was the second and biggest wave of deportations out of the three that the Soviet Union enacted in Moldova. Between 1941 and 1951 there were three waves of deportations, and historians estimate that the total number of deportees was between 80,000 and 120,000.

The institutions tasked with tackling corruption in Moldova are locked in an unsightly row that looks a lot like a struggle for power.

Cegeka, a European information and communication technology (ICT) service provider based in Belgium, has launched its expansion in Greece by looking for new office space and hiring its first executives in Athens, it announced on Thursday.

The company is looking for highly skilled IT professionals to join its team.

Moldovan economists and MEPs have welcomed the decision of the Commission for International Trade of the European Parliament which on Monday voted to extend by one year the suspension of taxes and import quotas on products exported from Moldova to the EU.

Fugitive and convicted Moldovan oligarch Ilan Shor announced on Monday the creation of a new political bloc to replace the Shor Party he previously led but which was recently declared unconstitutional by Moldova's Constitutional Court judges and outlawed.

"The Republic of Moldova vehemently condemns threats directed at Moldova made by a Russian representative in the occupied part of Ukraine to attack a bridge between Moldova and Romania. This is not acceptable".