In October 2025, the Moldovan government adopted a new security strategy, identifying Russia as the main threat.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov responded by warning that the Moldovan leadership was“making a grave mistake”by increasingly antagonizing Russia.
Last September, the pro-EU PAS party narrowly secured a majority in parliamentary elections, which saw claims of irregularities and manipulation.
Critics bemoaned uneven access to voting: only two polling stations were opened in Russia, despite the country hosting one of the largest Moldovan diaspora communities in the world of up to 500,000 people. By contrast, dozens of polling stations were opened in Italy alone – where the Moldovan diaspora tends to be more pro-EU.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov characterized the vote as a“fraud.”
Ex-Moldovan President Igor Dodon, the leader of the Party of Socialists, similarly alleged that the“ruling Party of Action and Solidarity has claimed victory in the election exclusively by manipulation with support from the EU and NATO.”
He further claimed that the West was aiming to turn the country into an“anti-Russian project”like Ukraine.
