Candidates for the presidency of Moldova will for the first time be required to take a test on their knowledge of the state language. The elections are scheduled for October 20, according to Point.

Landlocked Moldova doesn't have a navy, and isn't known as a regional military heavyweight, but that isn't keeping it from battling with Romania over the existence of a "Moldovan" language.

For the first time in a decade, Moldovan leaders held official celebrations in Chisinau on Romania's National Day and renewed calls for closer ties between the two countries, which share a common ...

The EU and Moldova hold their first-ever summit on Friday – but even pro-enlargement countries are hesitant to let Chișinău ...

Moldova was part of Romania until World War II, when it was annexed by the Soviet Union and Russian became the official language. During following half-century, Romanian was preserved in Moldovan ...

Moldova's parliament on Thursday approved a law on referring to the national language as Romanian in all legislative texts and the constitution, despite opposition from a pro-Moscow communist party.

The Moldovan language is very similar to Romanian, however, has historically been written using Cyrillic script, like Russian, rather than Latin notation, like Romanian. Advertisement.

MOSCOW. A recent decision by Moldovan lawmakers to rename the country's official language to Romanian raises questions about Moldova's territorial integrity, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman ...

The Constitutional Court of Moldova on Thursday struck down a law passed in December that sought to provide the Russian language with legal protections alongside the Moldovan state language. The ...

The struggle to save Gagauz, a Turkic tongue used by dwindling numbers of people in an ethnic enclave of Moldova, reflects the emotional power of language loyalties across the former Soviet Union.