Within a week the Russians had ad vanced 125 miles, overrun 18.500 square miles, recovered all of Bessarabia, killed or captured 300,000 enemy troops. They were less than 60 miles from the Ploesti ...

As everybody expected she would some day, Russia demanded Bessarabia from Rumania last week. And as everybody expected he would, King Carol II gave in. That much of what went on in the Balkans last ...

WHEN RUSSIA first attacked Ukraine in 2014 Bessarabia was a place to worry about. Less than half of its people identified as Ukrainian. The region was poor and, for historical and economic reasons ...

The Kremlin's plan failed. Russia tried to tense Bessarabia and organize an anti-Ukrainian riot, but the residents of the region massively supported Ukraine, writes The economist. At first, the ...

Inside Russia’s relentless drone war on Ukraine’s ports Once untouched by the conflict the war has now arrived in Ukrainian Bessarabia, as Putin tries to hit the last major grain-export route ...

Almost one-third of the entire Jewish population of the province of Bessarabia was exterminated in the course of the fierce Rumanian-Soviet fighting there and in the savage pogroms which followed ...

Kostadin Kostadinov, leader of Bulgaria’s pro-Russian Revival party, has fueled Kremlin narratives by claiming that Southern Bessarabia, part of Ukraine’s Odesa Oblast, should be returned to ...

In order to support the Jewish agriculturalists during the spring season the Ort Reconstruction Fund has made further grants for Russia, Poland and Bessarabia. A sum of $10,000 was granted for ...

Fewer than half of the region’s 570,000 people are Ukrainian. The rest are Bulgarians, Russians, Moldovans, Gagauz or Albanians. Many have a benign view of Russia, which gave their ancestors ...