@paulaerizanu.bsky.social
Journalist & writer from Moldova. Often in Romania. Lived in the UK for 12 years. Words: The Guardian, FT, BBC, London Review of Books etc.
Finally picked up my copy of @paulaerizanu.bsky.social’s new book about Moldovan history based on many interviews with people who have lived through the major events and changes of the last century. Can’t wait to read it!!
07.07.2025 14:48 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Starting today, Romania drops its price ceiling for electricity. This means energy bills will significantly go up; rising inflation; lower purchasing power. Moldova too will be affected by this, since Chisinau buys electricity on the Romanian market
hotnews.ro/liberalizare...
Moldova’s ex chief anticorruption prosecutor Veronica Dragalin has been writing open letters to judges who did not make it through the vetting process on the political pressures on her regarding these cases
www.zdg.md/stiri/dragal...
Moldovan president Maia Sandu gave a state of the nation speech in Parliament today outlining the success in preserving freedom and peace in a turbulent time and the need to protect this progress and continue integrate in the EU in the next 4 years
presedinte.md/rom/presa/me...
Moldova will hold parliamentary elections on 28 September, the speaker of the Parliament Igor Grosu announced today. The poll is crucial for Moldova’s geopolitics and will determine whether the country can continue its EU integration or whether it will fall back in Russia’s orbit
16.04.2025 14:04 — 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Young Romanians are being recruited via Telegram by neonazis from Moldova linked to Russian fascist groups. They are encouraged to act violently towards minorities, antifascist activists, organisations + paedophiles. The process is gamified. The leader is currently in Germany 1/
15.04.2025 09:33 — 👍 13 🔁 18 💬 4 📌 0
Romanian government supported Crin Antonescu is the new favourite presidential candidate according to a recent poll by AtlasIntel. Far right George Simion would still win 1st round but CA would cap 2nd round.
Previously polls saw reformist Bucharest mayor Nicușor Dan win the race
The FSB announced the detention of four "Ukrainian agents" recruited in Moldova. All these people were arrested in 2023-2024. News about the exposure of the "saboteurs" appeared against the backdrop of a diplomatic crisis between Moldova and Russia
theins.ru/news/280520
The purpose of the attacks on the media? Sowing general mistrust and thus undermine democracy
www.europeanpressprize.com/shortlists/y...
Great news. Moldova’s Ziarul de Gardă undercover investigative reporters Măriuța Nistor and Natalia Zaharescu are shortlisted for the European Press Prize.
Meanwhile, Moldovan indie media is under constant attack from pro-Russian, pro-oligarchic and even some pro-EU opposition
Moldova's ex minister of defense Anatol Șalaru won the case against Romanian presidential candidate George Simion. The latter sued Șalaru for his declarations that Simion had met up with Russian spies in Chernivtsi, an info confirmed by both Ukrainian and Moldovan intelligence
10.04.2025 10:36 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0One of the freed convicts is now back in prison and the head of prisons has resigned at PM Recean’s request
04.04.2025 16:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Big scandal in Moldova as criminals with life sentences have been freed following law amendments voted by governing party PAS. The party has blamed and excluded its member & MP Olesea Stamate for scheming this, saying that they had trusted her too much :/
www.zdg.md/importante/u...
TikTok admits 27,000 fake accounts supported Călin Georgescu & AUR’s electoral campaigns in Romania. Romanian prosecutors say Turkish IPs and Russian email addresses were used by troll farms to create 20,000 TikTok accounts that posted over 2 million comments in November 2024 1/
02.04.2025 12:20 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
The self-proclaimed authorities of the de facto Russian occupied region of Transnistria propose bill to fine foreign journalists without official accreditation granted by them, including Moldovan journalists
promolex.md/apel-public-...
Moldova has expelled three Russian diplomats as a result
moldova.europalibera.org/a/r-moldova-...
Shor ally and Member of Parliament Irina Lozovan received a six year sentence for being involved in an illegal political financing scheme benefitting a criminal network. On similar charges her husband was also sentenced to five years in prison. They both went missing
31.03.2025 13:53 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Breaking: Shor ally & Moldovan Member of Parliament Alexandr Nesterovschi, sentenced to 12 years in prison for involvement in an illegal political financing scheme, fled justice in a Russian embassy car to Transnistria, said head of security services Alexandru Musteață
31.03.2025 08:23 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Saturday morning queues at the Leipzig Book Fair
29.03.2025 15:56 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
More than 30 Moldovan mercenaries associated with Horațiu Potra were banned entry to Romania as they were heading to celebrate Călin Georgescu’s bday
www.antena3.ro/actualitate/...
Vladimir Plahotniuc apparently has four citizenships, including a surprising Mexican passport
26.03.2025 09:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Romanian investigative reporters Victor Ilie & Luiza Vasiliu were surveilled by their targets with the help of Romanian law enforcement following their research into a moneylaundering scheme linked to the British American influencer Andrew Tate
balkaninsight.com/2025/03/17/b...
The first major poll ahead of the Romanian presidential re-run says Georgescu far right allies George Simion or Anamaria Gavrila would win the first tour. But Bucharest reformist, pro-European mayor Nicușor Dan would top the second tour
hotnews.ro/exclusiv-pri...
Romania’s Constitutional Court has allowed Georgescu ally George Simion to run for president, rejecting all 15 complaints against him
hotnews.ro/o-noua-sedin...
10,000 people gathered in Bucharest today in the EuRo Manifest, a demonstration in support of Romania’s European identity & membership
www.g4media.ro/miting-euro-...
Breaking: internationally sanctioned Moldovan oligarch Veaceslav Platon was arrested in the UK, at the request of Moldovan prosecutors, who are investigating him for money laundering, fraud
www.zdg.md/stiri/politi...
