Maia Sandu, the pro-Western president, is seeking reelection after guiding Moldova closer to the European Union than ever ...

Vadim Ghirda/AP/dpa/picture alliance It was an election day like no other in Europe's recent history. While turnout for the presidential election runoff in the Republic of Moldova on Sunday broke ...

The close election demonstrates the challenging path toward Western democracy for former Soviet states.

Maia Sandu said she would be president for all, after a run-off against a rival backed by a pro-Russian party.

Moldova, which holds the second round of presidential elections on Sunday, has been increasingly in the headlines since ...

Officials in Brussels woke up with a sense of relief this morning as the pro-EU incumbent, Maia Sandu, was reelected as Moldovan president. That relief, however, probably won't last long.

Maia Sandu, the pro-Western president, is seeking reelection after guiding Moldova closer to the European Union than ever before while Russia’s war in Ukraine raged near its eastern border.