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.

Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Romania's capital Saturday in the latest antigovernment demonstration by far-right groups after a top court canceled a presidential election in the European Union country last year.

A court in Moscow has sentenced Romanian citizen Mihail Nicolaev to 19 years in prison for participation in an international criminal group engaged in drug trafficking, TASS reported. The case under which the convict was detained was initiated back in 2015.