Overview

• Voters choose a 101-seat parliament on September 28 in a contest between President Maia Sandu’s pro‑EU camp and a pro‑Russia opposition coalition.
• Security services on September 22 searched roughly 250 locations and detained 74 people over suspected Russia‑linked destabilization plans, and they reported shutting down more than 100,000 fake social‑media accounts in two months.
• Sandu has warned of vote‑buying and attempts to unseat her government, while Prime Minister Dorin Recean describes a Russian hybrid war fueled by propaganda.
• Russia’s foreign intelligence service (SVR) issued a September 23 statement predicting street unrest after alleged result manipulation and invoking claims of NATO‑backed repression.
• Former power broker Vladimir Plahotniuc was detained in Greece and transferred to Moldova on September 25 in a case tied to a major bank scandal and alleged links to exiled opposition figure Ilan Shor.