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Etymology Main article: Names of Moldavia and Moldova The name Moldova is derived from the Moldova River; the valley of this river served as a political centre at the time of the foundation of the Principality of Moldavia in 1359. The origin of the name of the river remains unclear. According to a legend recounted by Moldavian chroniclers Dimitrie Cantemir and Grigore Ureche, Prince Dragoș ...
2014 Moldovan bank fraud scandal. In 2014, $1 billion disappeared from three Moldovan banks: Banca de Economii, Unibank and Banca Socială. [1] This bank fraud in Moldova was a coordinated effort involving all three banks working together to extract as much loan finance as possible from the banks without any obvious business rationale.
Tănase v. Moldova. Case of Tănase v. Moldova. Tănase v. Moldova was a 2010 European Court of Human Rights case which determined that the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights prohibited Moldova from making dual cititzenship holders ineligible to sit in the national parliament. [1]
The Supreme Court of Justice of Moldova (Romanian: Curtea Supremă de Justiţie a Republicii Moldova) is the highest court in the Republic of Moldova that ensures the correct and uniform application of legislation by all courts of law, settlement of litigation arisen in the process of applying laws, guarantees the state’s responsibility to citizen and citizen’s responsibility to the state.
Moldovans, sometimes referred to as Moldavians (Romanian: moldoveni [moldoˈvenʲ], Moldovan Cyrillic: молдовень), are a Romanian-speaking ethnic group and the largest ethnic group of the Republic of Moldova (75.1% of the population as of 2014) and a significant minority in Romania, Italy, Ukraine and Russia.
Moldavia (Romanian: Moldova, pronounced ⓘ or Țara Moldovei, literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic: Молдова or Цара Мѡлдовєй) is a historical region and former principality in Central and Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester River.
The Moldova–Romania border is a fluvial boundary, following the course of the Prut and Danube. This is also part of the eastern border of the European Union, running from Criva in the North to Giurgiulești in the South. Moldova has access to the Danube for less than 500 metres, and Giurgiulești is the Moldovan port on the Danube river.
On 19 April 2021, the Council of Europe Action Plan for the Republic of Moldova 2021–2024, which had among its objectives working on the situation of human rights in Moldova, was signed on Strasbourg, France. Rights of vulnerable groups Romani people. Discrimination against Romani people is a systemic problem in Moldovan society.