Republik Moldau

The Constitutional Court’s judges ruled that members of the Shor Party, led by the fugitive oligarch Ilan Shor, who has been convicted of grand theft, cannot participate in any elections in the next five years.

In May, President Maia Sandu announced the creation of a National Centre for Information Defence and Combatting Propaganda, or PATRIOT, denouncing “those who launch and spread falsehoods” to cause “fear, hatred and division”.

Fugitive oligarch Ilan Shor, whose Shor Party was outlawed for corruption, said he will legally challenge a parliamentary decision that prevents some 600 of his members from running in elections in Moldova for several years.

[…] Announcing the expulsion on Wednesday, the ministry said it was prompted by "ongoing tensions and unfriendly actions" and the Russians would have to leave by 15 August.

The new leader of Moldova's region of Gagauzia expressed gratitude at her inauguration on Wednesday to a wealthy magnate jailed in absentia for fraud and stood by her calls for closer ties with Russia.

NGO activists said opposition Communist Party leader Oleg Khorzhan, who was murdered at his home, was the most vocal critic of the pro-Russian secessionist regime in Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria.

[…] The six-month renewal was a compromise solution that emerged after a process of several weeks of negotiations, led by North Macedonia in its capacity as OSCE chair and involving all 57 OSCE participating states. The majority of states would have preferred a 12-month extension, but the Russian Federation wanted to limit the extension to 6 months, … .

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.

Moldova's Constitutional Court on Monday banned the pro-Russian Shor party that has led months of protests and is headed by an exiled businessman accused by the West and the government of trying to destabilise the country.

President says new 'informational defence centre' will address Kremlin propaganda aimed at sowing divisions in society and 'weakening trust in our state'.