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Airline Wizz Air said on Monday it would suspend flights to the Moldovan capital Chisinau from March 14 due to concerns about the safety of its airspace, ...

European low-cost carrier Wizz Air will suspend all flights to the capital of Moldova from March 14.

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Flights will cease from 14 March, the budget airline says. The Moldovan government says it "regrets" the company's "sudden decision", and claims flights can ...

Flights will cease from 14 March, the budget airline says. The budget airline said it would provide extra flights to and from the Romanian city of Iasi, which lies close to the Moldovan border. "Following the recent developments in Moldova and the elevated, but not imminent, risk in the country's airspace, Wizz Air has made the difficult but responsible decision to suspend all flights to Chisinau from the 14th of March."

The Hungarian airline will stop flights at Chisinau airport in March. This month, a Russian missile aimed at Ukraine flew over Moldova and near Romania.

[declined to comment](https://twitter.com/wizzair/status/1630272903903166465) when asked by customers about reports of the suspension. airliners and hotel chains such as [Marriott](https://news.marriott.com/news/2022/06/03/marriott-international-statement) have downsized or suspended activities in Russia since the invasion. [crossed over](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/10/romania-moldova-russia-missiles-ukraine-nato/?itid=lk_inline_manual_6) Moldova this month, just 22 miles from the border of neighboring Romania, a NATO member. Also this month, Moldovan President Maia Sandu [said](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/13/moldova-president-russia-coup-ukraine-war/?itid=lk_inline_manual_6) Russia had sought to topple the country’s pro-West government by fomenting violence. “This is not the best environment for any airline to be in,” he said. It also expressed regret about “the sudden decision” taken by the airline.

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldova's intelligence agency said Monday that two foreign nationals who posed as tourists have been expelled from the country and ...

Budapest: Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air said that it will suspend all flights to and from Moldova next month due to security concerns linked to ...

The airline said: “Safety of the passengers and crew remain Wizz Air’s number one priority. The country’s civil aviation authority said the airline had sought approval for its summer flight schedule on February 14 and the agency “determined that flights in the national airspace can be carried out safely by following a number of procedures”, the BBC reported. Following the recent developments in Moldova and the elevated, but not imminent, risk in the country’s airspace, Wizz Air has made the difficult but responsible decision to suspend all flights to (the capital) Chisinau from 14 March.”

Moldova's intelligence agency said on February 27 that two foreign nationals have been expelled from the country and banned from returning for 10 years ...

"The old authoritarianism, with its brutal limits on freedoms writ large, and the suffocating straitjacket of patriarchy," said Volker, who took over the position in October. A court in the Russia-annexed region of Crimea has sentenced to prison four Jehovah's Witnesses accused of organizing, funding, and taking part in an extremist group. Three were sentenced to prison terms ranging from six years to six years and one month and a fourth to three years in prison. Universities and students have long been at the forefront of the struggle for greater social and political freedoms in Iran. Wizz Air said in a statement on February 27 it would add extra flights from the Romanian city of Iasi as replacements to the suspended flights to Chisinau. "We are on the right track and in the direction of normalizing relations. The Intelligence and Security Service (SIS) said in a statement that the pair were trained in data and information gathering "for the implementation of a plan to destabilize the internal situation in the country." Individuals listed in response to gross and systematic violations of human rights are also inadmissible to Canada under the country's Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. To read the original story by AP, [click here](https://apnews.com/article/putin-politics-belarus-government-russia-moscow-47145c0d3da66b04e06abbb5c261c55a). Vucic expressed hope that it would be possible to reach some compromises and to work on the implementation of existing agreements. [will meet](https://www.rferl.org/a/blinken-visit-central-asia-moscow-ukraine/32290651.html) with the foreign ministers of the five Central Asian republics -- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. [Live Briefing](https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-crisis-crosshairs-live-briefing/31668477.html) gives you all of the latest developments on Russia's ongoing invasion, Kyiv's counteroffensive, Western military aid, global reaction, and the plight of civilians.

International, MNA | Hungarian budget airline Wizz Air announced it would suspend all its flights to and from Moldova due to security concerns linked to ...

“Due to recent developments and the high, though not imminent, risk in the country’s airspace, Wizz Air has taken the difficult but responsible decision to suspend all its flights to Chisinau as of March 14,” the group said in a statement. The Romanian national airline Tarom, Air Moldova, and Turkish Airlines continue to fly to the Moldovan capital. Hungarian budget airline Wizz Air announced Monday it would suspend all its flights to and from Moldova due to security concerns linked to growing tensions with Russia.

BUDAPEST — Airline Wizz Air said on Monday it would suspend flights to the Moldovan capital Chisinau from March 14 due to concerns about the safety of its…

(Reporting by Gergely Szakacs and Alexander Tanas, writing by Max Hunder and Elaine Monaghan. 14, and received it on Monday. Article content

Foreigners associated with sabotage centers outside the country were expelled from Moldova. According to Moldova's Information and Security Service, two.

It should be noted that, during their stay on the national territory of the Republic of Moldova, the foreign citizens initiated a complex of informational-subversive actions to investigate various locations near government offices and critical infrastructure objectives. Likewise, it was established that the foreign nationals, disguised as mere tourists, were coordinated from the shadows by a group affiliated with a conspiratorial network of overseas political technology and social engineering experts. They were trained in data and information-gathering activities to implement a plan to destabilize the country’s internal situation, provoking violent change in the constitutional order of the Republic of Moldova.

The Moldovan intelligence agency, on Monday (February 27) said that it expelled two foreign nations who were staying in the country as tourists, ...

The Moldovan oligarch is accused of working with “corrupt oligarchs and Moscow-based entities to create political unrest” in the country, as per media reports. The SIS also alleged that the pair was in coordination with a “group of individuals affiliated with a conspiratorial network of overseas political technology and social engineering experts,” reported AP. The Moldovan intelligence agency, on Monday (February 27) said that it expelled two foreign nations who were staying in the country as tourists, reported the Associated Press.

Here's what Lavrov meant. Viewed from Moscow, Moldova resembles Ukraine before Putin attacked it a year ago. Both countries used to be parts of the Soviet Union ...

The Kremlin said on Monday it was worried about the state of affairs in Moldova's breakaway Transdniestria region, where it said Ukraine and other European ...

Claiming that Ukraine is thereby “threatening Russia's peacekeeping troops legally stationed in Transnistria,” the Russian Defense Ministry warned that “the ...

It leaves open (albeit without requiring it) the option of Chisinau itself establishing a legal status for Transnistria or “the localities on the left bank of the Nistru River.” This would be an “octroi” (octroyed status), as distinct from a contractual arrangement between Tiraspol and Chisinau that Russia has imposed and the other parties accepted as the goal of the 5+2 process. Under Moldova’s Constitution (1994), a “special status” for Transnistria is optional, as it may be granted (i.e., an octroi), and to be established for localities, not a “region”: “The localities on the left bank of the Nistru River may be granted special forms and conditions of autonomy, in accordance with a special status that would be adopted by organic law [by this Parliament]” ( The OSCE, however, seems beholden to the toxic Russian legacy in the 5+2 process and the finality of a contractual special status for Transnistria. Under that law, Transnistria’s eventual legal status may be established only after its demilitarization (defined as complete withdrawal of Russian forces) and its democratization (ineligibility of Russia’s proxies), in that sequence (demilitarization being a prerequisite to democratization). North Macedonia is one of many small countries with small foreign ministries and meager out-of-area expertise that rotate annually in the OSCE’s chair. Furthermore, the 2005 law treats Transnistria as a sum total of localities, each one entitled to decide whether to become a part of a special-status territory by plebiscite (the procedure by which the Gagauz autonomy was established in 1994). Transnistrian leader Vadim Krasnoselsky and his representatives are asking both Moscow and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to do all they can to reactivate the 5+2 forum (Novosti pridnestroviya, February 2, 17; TASS, February 14; Izvestiya, February 21). With those hopes dashed, and Chisinau finally making a clean break with Russia, the latter seems to hint that it could end the pretense of recognizing Moldova’s territorial integrity and sovereignty in Transnistria. [TASS](https://tass.com/world/1580867), February 23). Russia continues recognizing Moldova’s territorial integrity on paper, but the February 23 and February 24 statements (see above) broadly hint at a possible de-recognition if and when Russia would find it expedient. Claiming that Ukraine is thereby “threatening Russia’s peacekeeping troops legally stationed in Transnistria,” the Russian Defense Ministry warned that “the Russian Federation’s armed forces [from outside Transnistria] would fittingly react to this provocation-in-the-making” ( As part of its recent clean break with Russia, the Moldovan leadership is calling for the unconditional and complete evacuation of Russian forces unlawfully stationed on Moldova’s territory in Transnistria.

The Hungarian budget airline, Wizz Air, informed the Moldova Civil Aviation Authority that it was suspending flights to the country from March 14.

“Safety of the passengers and crew remain Wizz Air’s number one priority,” Wizz Air said in a statement. “Following the recent developments in Moldova and the elevated, but not imminent, risk in the country’s airspace, Wizz Air has made the difficult but responsible decision to suspend all flights to Chisinau from the 14th of March.” All flights to the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, will be suspended from March 14, 2023, but the airline said it would add extra flights from the Romanian city of Iasi instead.

As tensions with Russia escalate, the low-cost airline has announced it will halt flights to the country in the coming weeks.

[airline](https://www.euronews.com/travel/tag/airlines) said on Monday it would pause flights to the Moldovan capital Chisinau from 14 March. It adds that "following the recent developments in Moldova and the elevated, but not imminent, risk in the country's airspace, Wizz Air has made the difficult but responsible decision to suspend all flights to Chisinau from the 14th of March." [Budapest](https://www.euronews.com/travel/tag/budapest) and [Prague](https://www.euronews.com/travel/tag/prague) will not be replaced and those inbound to Chisinau will be reallocated to other destinations in the Wizz Air network, it said. [flights](https://www.euronews.com/travel/tag/flight) from the [Romanian](https://www.euronews.com/travel/tag/romania) city of Iasi - around 150 km from Chisinau - as replacements. [Ukraine](https://www.euronews.com/travel/tag/ukraine). [Moldova](https://www.euronews.com/travel/2021/11/11/visit-transnistria-the-breakaway-state-that-s-in-the-champions-league) for security reasons.

One of the main donor projects in fruit growing, Livada Moldovei, announced in February this year a reduction in the interest rate of loans in Moldovan lei ...

Nevertheless, some representatives of Moldovan fruit growers’ associations see modest optimism in the fact that many technologically advanced horticultural and viticultural enterprises, at least not yet decided to stop the investment projects for the modernization of their plantations, which began a year or two ago. The planting of the main share of young orchards and vineyards is stimulated by the National Fund for the Development of Agriculture and Rural Areas. The second reason for delaying the renewal of orchards and vineyards is considered by many fruit growers to be the reduction in guaranteed sales channels for products, primarily access to traditional (Russian and Belarusian) markets.

Airline Wizz Air said on Monday (26 February) it would suspend flights to the Moldovan capital Chisinau from 14 March due to concerns about the safety of ...

14, and received it on Monday. It said the civil aviation authority and the ministry of infrastructure and regional development had been in “constant cooperation” with Wizz Air representatives and informed them of the procedures in place to ensure aviation security. “Safety of the passengers and crew remain Wizz Air’s number one priority and following the recent developments in Moldova and the elevated, but not imminent, risk in the country’s airspace, Wizz Air has made the difficult but responsible decision to suspend all flights to Chisinau from 14 March,” it said.

European low-cost carrier Wizz Air is is to suspend flights to Moldova because of concerns over airspace safety.

“As a result of recent developments in Moldova and the high, but not imminent, risk in the country’s airspace, Wizz Air has taken the difficult but responsible decision to suspend all flights to Chisinau starting on March 14,” the Hungarian-based airline said in a statement on Monday. Get news about destinations opening, inspiration for future adventures, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, where to stay and other travel developments. European low-cost carrier Wizz Air is is to suspend flights to Moldova because of concerns over airspace safety.

Airline Wizz Air said on Monday it would suspend flights to the Moldovan capital Chisinau from March 14 due to concerns about the safety of its airspace, ...

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Opposition protests in Chisinau and on surrounding highways in Moldova Feb. 28. Increased security, disruptions reported. Clashes possible.

Resultant protests are reportedly blocking traffic on the M3 near Sagaidacul Nou, around 32 km (20 miles) south of Chisinau, and on the M2 near Stauceni, around 6 km (4 miles) north of the capital. Supporters of the opposition Movement for the People are protesting in Chisinau, as well as on highways approaching the city, on Feb. In Chisinau, demonstrators are marching in the city center.

In a statement, the Hungarian budget airline said: “Safety of the passengers and crew remain Wizz Air's number one priority.

[outlined a plot by Moscow to use external saboteurs to overthrow the country's government, put the nation “at the disposal of Russia” and derail its aspirations to one day join the European Union.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/moldova-ap-maia-sandu-president-chisinau-b2281186.html) Wizz Air is the first airline to confirm a suspension of flights to Moldova. [hit by debris](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-moldova-interior-ministry-ukraine-chisinau-b2262366.html) from the neighbouring war several times, struggled with an influx of Ukrainian refugees and suffered energy blackouts. [Joanna Whitehead](/author/joanna-whitehead) Comments [Wizz Air](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/wizz-air) has confirmed it will suspend all flights to and from [Moldova](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/moldova) due to safety concerns. “Following the recent developments in Moldova and the elevated, but not imminent, risk in the country’s airspace, Wizz Air has made the difficult but responsible decision to suspend all flights to [the capital] Chișinău from 14 March.” In a statement, the Hungarian budget airline said: “Safety of the passengers and crew remain Wizz Air’s number one priority.

Moldova has expelled two foreigners suspected of taking part in subversive activities, the Moldovan intelligence services said Monday amid rising fears that ...

[accused](https://www.politico.eu/article/moldova-president-maia-sandu-russia-attack/) Russia of plotting to overthrow the government. [accused](https://www.politico.eu/article/moldova-energy-crisis-inflation-russia-ukraine-war/) Russia — which bases soldiers in the breakaway region of Transnistria in the east — of stirring unrest in the country, including protests in the capital Chișinău, as punishment for its pro-European path. Russian authorities [denied](https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1853931/) the allegation.

Romania's Defense Ministry has warned that dozens of social-media posts claiming Bucharest has been massing troops and military equipment at its border with ...

The Intelligence and Security Service (SIS) said in a statement that the pair were trained in data and information gathering "for the implementation of a plan to destabilize the internal situation in the country." Three were sentenced to prison terms ranging from six years to six years and one month and a fourth to three years in prison. A court in the Russia-annexed region of Crimea has sentenced to prison four Jehovah's Witnesses accused of organizing, funding, and taking part in an extremist group. Universities and students have long been at the forefront of the struggle for greater social and political freedoms in Iran. Wizz Air said in a statement on February 27 it would add extra flights from the Romanian city of Iasi as replacements to the suspended flights to Chisinau. "We are on the right track and in the direction of normalizing relations. To read the original story by AP, [click here](https://apnews.com/article/putin-politics-belarus-government-russia-moscow-47145c0d3da66b04e06abbb5c261c55a). Vucic expressed hope that it would be possible to reach some compromises and to work on the implementation of existing agreements. [Live Briefing](https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-crisis-crosshairs-live-briefing/31668477.html) gives you all of the latest developments on Russia's ongoing invasion, Kyiv's counteroffensive, Western military aid, global reaction, and the plight of civilians. China said the visit is an "opportunity to promote the further development of all-around cooperation between the two countries," but there have been growing concerns that China is considering providing military assistance to Russia, something U.S. The Wikimedia Foundation was fined 2 million rubles ($27,000) by a Russian court on February 28 after the authorities accused it of failing to delete "misinformation" about the Russian military from Wikipedia, the courts service said. Stoltenberg told reporters during a visit to Finland's capital, Helsinki, on February 28 that "the issue now is that Ukraine prevails as a sovereign independent nation, and therefore we need to support Ukraine."

Thousands of anti-government protesters again took to the streets of Moldova's capital to demand that the country'snew pro-Western governmentfully subsidize ...

Shor Party leader, the exiled Moldovan oligarch Ilan Shor, accused police of trying to “thwart the peaceful rally." The country’s anti-corruption prosecutors’ office alleged the protests were partly financed with Russian money. Demonstrators waved Moldovan flags and honked horns, with many calling for the country's president to step down.

Moldova's intelligence agency said Monday that two foreign nationals who posed as tourists have been expelled from the country and banned from returning for ...

"Through violent actions, masked under protests of the so-called opposition, the change of power in Chisinau would be forced," she said. The SIS statement Monday also came after Sandu outlined on Feb. The Intelligence and Security Service, SIS, said in a statement that the pair were trained in data and information gathering "for the implementation of a plan to destabilize the internal situation in the country," to provoke what it described as "violent change" to Moldova's constitutional order.

European airline services, Wizz Air, is set to suspend flights to Moldova from 14 March citing "risk in the country's airspace." Hungarian-based airline in ...

According to Wizz Air’s website, after 14 March, flights meant for Chisinau International Airport will land at Iasi in Romania. After the stipulated date, flights meant for Chisinau International Airport will land at Iasi in Romania. Moldovan breakaway region of Transnistria is the latest inflection point in Ukraine war.

However, Moscow says Ukraine and its Western allies are instigating tensions in Moldova, with the aim of creating a pretext to attack its troops in ...

Mr. Treasury’s list of sanctioned individuals in October over his alleged role in “Russia’s efforts to subvert Moldovan democracy.” In a 2019 election, the Shor Party won just seven seats in the country’s 101-seat parliament. Shor, who fled Moldova in 2019 after being convicted of money laundering and fraud – charges he says were politically motivated – is believed to be living in Israel. “This is the dream of Putin, because what he urgently needs is a ceasefire that freezes the front line in the occupied territories.” In one video posted to social media, protesters tore up a poster of Ms. “The situation is unsettled, it is being provoked, provoked from outside,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday. Russia currently occupies about 15 per cent of Ukraine’s territory, nearly all of it in five regions in the east and south that Mr. “They are trying to distract Europe by creating another unstable region, to make them so scared that Europe will say: ‘The war in Ukraine must stop immediately because it’s spreading chaos,’ ” Mr. “Russia has a desire to create one more point of tension, destabilization, to distract our forces and make them pay attention to this territory, to this issue.” The situation in Moldova is made additionally fraught by the presence of 1,000 to 2,000 Russian troops who have been deployed in the country’s eastern Transnistria region since a conflict in the early 1990s. On Tuesday thousands of anti-government protesters – many of them supporters of a pro-Russian politician – took to the streets of Chisinau, the Moldovan capital, for the second time in nine days, calling for the pro-Western government of President Maia Sandu to resign. Russia is sending specialists from their special services who are experts in street provocations, just like we saw in northern Kazakhstan,” said Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President