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On 17 April 2024, Parliament speaker Igor Grosu announced the holding of the presidential election in conjunction with the referendum on joining the European Union on 20 October. [1] The decision was approved by the Parliament of Moldova on 16 May. [4][5]
A nationwide referendum is scheduled to be held in Moldova on 20 October 2024 [1] on whether the country should amend the Constitution of Moldova to include the Moldovan citizens' wish for European Union membership, in order to prevent future governments from derailing the country from its pro-European trajectory. [2][3] Incumbent president ...
7 June – The European Commission allows Moldova to begin negotiations on joining the European Union. [4] 10 June – President Maia Sandu signs amendments to the country's criminal code expanding provisions against treason into law. [5] 12 June – The United States imposes sanctions on Evghenia Guțul, the pro- Russian governor of Gagauzia.
Ilan Shor (or Șor; [6] Hebrew: אילן שור; [7] born 6 March 1987) is an Israeli-born Moldovan pro-Russian [8] oligarch [9] and politician. In 2014, Shor "masterminded" a scam that saw US$1 billion disappear from Moldovan banks, [10] resulting in a total loss equivalent to 12% of Moldova's GDP and the arrest of former Prime Minister Vlad Filat. [11]
Religion in Moldova is dominated by the Eastern Orthodox branch of Christianity. According to the 2014 Moldovan census, 90 per cent of the country reported to be of the Eastern Orthodox Christian faith. [2] Of this number, around eighty to 90 per cent of Orthodox Moldovans belong to the Moldovan Orthodox Church (formally known as Metropolis of ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 September 2024. Second-largest Christian church This article is about the Eastern Orthodox Church as an institution. For its religion, doctrine and tradition, see Eastern Orthodoxy. For other uses of "Orthodox Church", see Orthodox Church (disambiguation). For other uses of "Greek Orthodox", see Greek ...
The Metropolis of Chișinău and All Moldova is the largest church in the country, and one of the two main Orthodox churches in Moldova (beside the Metropolis of Bessarabia, an autonomous metropolitanate of the Romanian Orthodox Church). In the 2004 census in Moldova 3,158,015 people or 95.5% of those declaring a religion claimed to be Eastern ...
Marina Tauber was born in 1986, in Chișinău, [1] in a family of Jewish origin. [2][3] She was a high school colleague with Ilan Shor. [4] In 2011 she graduated from the State University of Physical Education and Sport in Chișinău. She worked as a tennis player and coach.