Moldova’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has denied registration to the pro-Russian Pobeda bloc ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections, the Newsmaker.md outlet reported on July 20.

Georgia cannot join the European Union until its government abandons its authoritarian path and guarantees free and fair elections, the European Parliament said in a statement posted to X on July 19.

Relations between the two states began to deteriorate in 2021, when pro-European forces assumed power in Moldova ...