Moldova

Vadim Krasnoselsky told foreign diplomats on Tuesday evening that the breakaway region wants to launch an international lawsuit over "the aggression against the people of Transnistria".

He said that Transnistria will ask for compensation.

Russia appears to hold all the trump cards in looming negotiations on gas supplies to Moldova, for now at least.

"EU standards cannot be implemented in Moldova if this country is not reunified with Romania" and "There are no two nations! There is one, the Romanian nation" are just two of the quotes and slogans used by Romanian politicians while campaigning in Moldova for this week's European Parliament elections.

President Igor Dodon said on Wednesday that MPs have two weeks to establish a governing majority and get parliament functioning again or he will call for early elections.

"If during this period [of two weeks], deputies do not find a consensus and create a parliamentary majority, then the president of Moldova will have to dissolve parliament," Dodon said.

The pro-Russian President of Moldova, Igor Dodon, and supporters of the Socialist Party on Thursday led a march to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Red Army victory over Nazi Germany and the end of World War II.

"It must be an equal celebration for everybody. Victory Day is a celebration of all citizens in Moldova," Dodon said.

National Bank of Moldova statistics on the first quarter of 2019, published on Tuesday, show that Israel has overtaken Russia as the leading source of financial remittances from Moldovans working abroad.

It is for the first time in the last two decades when Russia has not held the first place as the source of remittances from emigrant Moldovans.

More than two months since the parliamentary elections were held in Moldova on February 24, negotiations on forming a coalition government in the former Soviet republic remain ongoing.

So far, the three main political forces that entered the legislature, the Democrats, Socialists and ACUM, have not found find a consensus.

The Malta based betting company Kambi will support the Bulgarian "National Lottery" for its entry into the foreign market and specifically in Moldova.

Months after parliamentary elections, Moldova has failed to form a new government - and its future orientation towards either Russia or Europe hangs in the balance.

A decade after the overthrow of the communist regime in Moldova, the former supporters of the revolution feel their country has degraded into a corrupt oligarchy - with even worse politicians than it had before.