Government cost cuts to curb Romania's chronic budget deficit and avert a ratings downgrade are causing a social backlash that risks boosting support for the far-right pro-Moscow candidate in May's presidential rerun.

Romania has expelled two military diplomats from the Russian embassy in Bucharest as tensions sour between Moscow and the European Union and NATO-member country

Government cost cuts to curb Romania's chronic budget deficit and avert a ratings downgrade are causing a social backlash that risks boosting support for the far-right pro-Moscow candidate in May's presidential rerun.

More than 90 percent of churchgoers in Moldova, which lies between Ukraine and Romania, adhere to the Orthodox Church. The invasion, backed enthusiastically by Russia's Orthodox Church, has accelerated a move by parishes from Moldova's majority Moscow-linked Moldova Metropolis to the smaller Romania-linked church,

Romanian prosecutors have launched criminal proceedings against the pro-Russian candidate who won the first round of last year’s presidential election that was later cancelled due to alleged meddling by Moscow.

Romania detained six people on charges of trying to overthrow the state with Russia’s help, prosecutors said on Thursday, and a 101-year-old former army major general said his home had been raided as part of the investigation.

In Romania, employees of the Directorate for the Investigation of Crimes related to Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), today, March 6, detained six people on suspicion of treason.

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Calin Georgescu, the far-right pro-Russian frontrunner in Romania's cancelled presidential election, submitted his candidacy for the May ballot re-run on Friday amid doubts that he will be allowed to run.

BUCHAREST - Romania declared the Russian embassy's military attache and his deputy personae non grata on March 5 for what it said were acts contravening diplomatic rules, a move Russia said it would respond to. The step is the latest sign of tension between Bucharest and Moscow over Russia’s war on Ukraine and allegations of electoral interference.

Romanian prosecutors opened a criminal probe Wednesday into far-right populist Calin Georgescu, whose surprise first-round win in December presidential elections prompted authorities to take the