Gagauzia's 140,000 residents, mainly ethnic Turks who adhere to Orthodox Christianity, have had uneasy relations with central authorities since Moldova threw off Soviet rule in 1991.

When Gagauzia organized a referendum in 2014 — illegally, according to the central government — more than 98 percent voted in support of joining a Moscow-led trade bloc over the European Union.

Months later, on March 25, Gagauzia’s leader, or bashkan, Eugenia Gutul, is now in pretrial detention after she was nabbed at Moldova’s international airport, allegedly fleeing a corruption trial.

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine drags on, locals in the autonomous Gagauzia region of Moldova oppose war but maintain staunch loyalty to Moscow. COMRAT, Moldova -- On a freezing afternoon on ...

Gagauzia's Executive Committee described the governor's detention as an "unprecedented act of pressure" on the region's autonomy. Gutul, a member of the Shor party, won the regional presidential ...

Gagauzia Governor Eugenia Gutul accused her country's pro-European Union leadership of "oppressing" pro-Kremlin residents of her region during a meeting with the speaker of Russia's Senate in ...

The leader of Moldova's minority Gagauzia region, at odds with the ex-Soviet state's central authorities over her pro-Moscow sympathies, returned on Wednesday from her second trip to Russia in a ...

Putin and top Russian government officials reportedly promised gas supplies to Gagauzia at reduced rates directly from Russia’s majority state-owned Gazprom.. Gazprom doubled gas rates for ...

In Gagauzia, other representatives of the Pobeda bloc, which advocates normalization of relations with the Russian Federation, also came under attack. On March 26, at Chisinau airport, the head of the ...