Separatist region says imports, exports hit by energy crisis Region hit by daily blackouts, shutdown of industry Moldova's pro-European president calls meeting on energy issues CHISINAU ...

Moldova is one of Europe’s poorest countries with a GDP per capita of just £2703. The country shares its border with Romania and Ukraine, it was historically part of the USSR and faced rapid ...

COPANCA, Moldova (AP) — Every time planned electrical outages are imposed on his village in southern Moldova, 73-year-old retiree Vasili Donici passes the time solving crosswords and puzzles in ...

Vladimir Putin has been accused of manufacturing an energy crisis in a breakaway region of Moldova to create instability and exert pressure on Ukraine. Transnistria broke away from the country in ...

The head of Moldova’s breakaway region Transnistria has urged residents to burn firewood for heating and warned that blackouts cannot be avoided, after Moscow stopped supplying gas via Ukraine.

At least 32 dolphins have died since fuel oil spilled out of two stricken tankers three weeks ago in the Kerch Strait which separates the Crimean Peninsula from Russia's southern Krasnodar region ...

A renegade part of Moldova once boasted it would become a Russian-speaking Switzerland. Now without gas, its leader assured residents, “We will not allow a societal collapse.” A renegade part ...

Summer has returned, and with it, another beach season, with locals and tourists alike packing out the coastlines. But what does proper etiquette look like? How can you best enjoy a day at the ...

But not in Moldova. Russia is seeking to use the cutoff, analysts and officials say, as a part of a concerted effort to weaken the pro-Western government in the small nation, which is sandwiched ...

End of Ukraine gas transit deal plunges Moldova region into crisis Local officials announce longer rolling blackouts Industry closed down, residents without heating, hot water KYIV, Jan 4 (Reuters ...

This week's cut-off of Russian gas supplies could create a humanitarian crisis in the breakaway Transnistria region, sparking public discontent and that might threaten Moldova's path towards the ...