Olesea Stamate
Russia Bans Moldovan MPs and Minister, and Expels Diplomat
After Russia announced on Tuesday evening that it had banned three pro-European Moldovan MPs and the Interior Minister, the targeted politicians said they had no plans to go there anyway.
The authorities in Moscow banned Interior Minister Ana Revenco and three deputies of the Action and Solidarity Party, PAS, Oazu Nantoi, Olesea Stamate and Lilian Carp.
Moldovan Socialists Topple Govt in No-Confidence Vote
Prime Minister Maia Sandu's cabinet was ousted on Tuesday when it lost a no-confidence motion by 101 to 63 votes, only five months after it came to office.
It was defeated by the combined votes of the pro-Russian Socialist Party, PSRM, and the Democratic Party which was led until recently by the oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc.
Battle Over Prosecutor’s Post Imperils Moldovan Coalition
Moldova's coalition government was in jeopardy on Friday after the Socialist Party gave the pro-EU Prime Minister Maia Sandu a deadline to abandon her plan to take personal responsibility for naming the new General Prosecutor - after a commission entrusted with the job was axed.
Moldova Reforms System for Appointing Top Prosecutor
The Moldovan parliament late on Monday night adopted changes to the mechanism for appointing the country's general prosecutor amid efforts to clean up the country's judicial system and reduce corruption.