Vice President JD Vance slammed the European Union for "straight up canceling the results of a presidential election" in Romania "based on flimsy suspicions" that Russia interfered, during a speech at the Munich Security Conference on Friday (full speech here).

More than 90 percent of churchgoers in Moldova, which lies between Ukraine and Romania, adhere to the Orthodox Church. The invasion, backed enthusiastically by Russia's Orthodox Church, has accelerated a move by parishes from Moldova's majority Moscow-linked Moldova Metropolis to the smaller Romania-linked church,

Vance instead hit on some recent hot button cultural issues, from abortion laws in Britain to the recent election in Romania,” they write. What Vance said: “The threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia.

US vice-president JD Vance’s scathing criticism of a country cancelling an election due to alleged Russian meddling has emboldened a pro-Putin candidate in his bid to become the next president of Romania.

Russian drones have crashed in Moldova and NATO member Romania during Russia’s overnight attacks on neighboring Ukraine’s Danube port.

Keeping Putin bogged down in Ukraine makes all 32 NATO nations safer. Finland, Romania, and Estonia, in particular, recognize the urgency of stopping Russia before the threat reaches them. The U.S. and U.

Romanian opposition party Union Save Romania (USR) has called on Defence Minister Angel Tilvar to clarify how a company with alleged ties to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska was awarded a contract for the construction of Nato’s largest military base in Europe at Mihail Kogalniceanu.

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Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Romania’s capital in a show of support for Calin Georgescu.

The military deadlock, fatigue of public opinion and fear of escalation are all working in Moscow's favor, to the detriment of Europe, at a time when the latter is being abandoned by its American ally.

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov recently said that several countries in the European Union, especially Romania, have territorial claims against Ukraine, despite the fact that the Romanian government expressed the exact opposite numerous times,