Soccer Sep 14, 2021
Separatist Transnistria relishes Champions League 'fairy tale'
Despite reaching Europe's elite club competition, the team remains controversial for the part its ownership has played in the wake of Moldova's brief civil war.
World Feb 27, 2015
Germany's Angela Merkel said on Thursday she hoped Russia's Vladimir Putin would not try the same strategy in Moldova as he had in Ukraine, and expressed support for the country's efforts to forge stronger ties with Europe, to Moscow's chagrin. The chancellor, asked at a ...
World / Politics Dec 1, 2014
Moldova's pro-Europe parties set to take parliament majority
Moldova's three main pro-Europe parties appeared on Monday to be able to form a new coalition with most of the vote from an election on Sunday counted, despite the pro-Moscow Socialist Party taking first place. With 87 percent of the vote counted, according to the ...
World / Politics Mar 26, 2014
Russia's military staged training exercises Tuesday in Transnistria, a breakaway sliver of Moldova that is a focus of tension following Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region. NATO's top military commander said Sunday he was worried that Russia might have its eye on Transnistria, a largely ...
Soccer | PREMIER REPORT Sep 5, 2013
Uneasy feelings persist about England
by Christopher Davies
If England beats Moldova at home Friday night and then defeats Ukraine (a) and Montenegro (h), it will top Group H and qualify automatically for the World Cup finals next year. Its fate is in its own hands. The bad news is — ...