Azerbaijan's authoritarian leader, Ilham Aliyev, was re-elected president after winning the Nagorno-Karabakh war and can turn his country into an energy and trade hub halfway between Asia and Europe.
Hackers stole data from the Romanian Parliament, demanding money for ransom. Such ransomware attacks are launched by both criminals and state actors.
Europeans’ freedom of movement will be restricted in the name of combating climate change, an MP with the far-right AUR party claims.
The leader of a far-right party in Hungary has laid claim to Transcarpathia, shortly after the AUR party in Romania lodged a similar claim to Northern Bukovina. The thesis is typical of Russian propaganda.
Chisinau has levied customs duties on companies based in Transnistria in order to bring the region into Romania or under the umbrella of the West, says a separatist deputy, quoted by Russian and pro-Russian media. On this occasion, older narratives related to Transnistria and the conflict in the region have been revived.
The narratives were launched / amplified by Moscow and pro-Russians, and the theses included Moldova’s involvement in the war in Ukraine, an attack on Transnistria and EU rapprochement.
Romania is the only country that will use a non-functional nuclear technology, after Poland banned it, according to a well-known anti-Western website.
The colonization of Romania, the war in Ukraine, conspiracy theories related to the "sanitary dictatorship" and climate change have been the favorite topics for most of the year’s false narratives.
Patriots are punished by the justice system, which is a puppet in the hands of external forces, says a Romanian citizen known for his extremist actions and speeches against the Hungarian minority.
Now that a measles epidemic was declared, children will be injected with a biological weapon, according to a narrative promoted by a well-known conspiracy peddling website.
The West plans to replace Maia Sandu, to unify the Republic of Moldova with Romania and to annex Transnistria, according to a false narrative published in Moscow and Chișinău.
Through mammograms, occult forces aim to make women ill, according to a conspiracy theory resumed these days on social media.
Bulgaria is sobering for the fact that the uphill battle to become part of the Schengen Area is far from over and even out of the country’s immediate control of the events.
The existence of the Danube Delta is endangered by NATO and the Romanian Defense Ministry, which seek to take over a stretch of land and use it for military purposes, reads a nationalist publication.
The Metropolitanate of Moldova will lose its autonomy if it becomes subordinated to the Romanian Patriarchate. A similar decision taken in 1918 was opposed by Moldovan churchgoers, the diocese of a pro-Russian clergyman says.
The Romanian Parliament will vote in favor of abandoning the country’s neutrality in a secret sitting, the pro-Russian Romanian Senator Diana Șoșoacă says.
NATO and the Americans are preparing the occupation of Moldova, one possible scenario being the annexation by Romania, a deputy of the separatist Parliament in Tiraspol claims.
Romania is a revanchist state that wants to force Chișinău and Kyiv to refuse to recognize “the Moldovan language”, according to a Russian publication that reiterates a Soviet narrative about the existence of the Moldovan language.
Insomnia, depression and anxiety are among the effects of the Covid19 vaccines, claim the latest anti-vaccine theories, also promoted in Romania.
The president of Ukraine is no longer supported in the West, pro-Kremlin propaganda writes, calling Zelenskyy “an international beggar” and examining his visit to Bucharest.
An artificially induced water crisis will lead to the installation of a world government due to the failure of vaccination and the climate change hoax, conspiracy theorists say.
Russia has claimed for years that Ukraine has biological laboratories and says its attack was meant to destroy those labs. The narrative was also included in the disinformation about the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam.
The (Pro)Russians claim that Ukraine will cause a nuclear incident. The narrative is meant to undermine support for Kiev and has been promoted in Eastern Europe as well.
The EU and Romania want Moldova to forcefully annex Transnistria, while the Moldovan army is running attack drills focusing on this region, the Russian media writes, claiming the plan will observe the logic of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The flu vaccine contains elements of nanotechnology, which will be used to control the human being, says a gynecologist, known as a conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxxer.
The EU is giving money for bridges over the Prut and European gauge in Moldova so that NATO can more easily send weapons to Ukraine, according to a false narrative circulating in Chisinau
Russia bombed Kryvyi Rih to kill the NATO specialists in Ukraine, according to propaganda claiming that missile attacks on civilians are not war crime
The first President of the Republic of Moldova, Mircea Snegur, died aged 83. He was praised for his role in achieving the independence, but he was also accused of being Russia’s inside man.
Many Moldovan deputies voted in favor of the independence of the Republic of Moldova out of fear, but they opposed the unification with Romania, although Bucharest would have agreed to this move, says Bessarabian academician Valeriu Matei.
Romania is dragged in the war in Ukraine by foreign troops on its soil, according to a disinformation narrative promoted by an apparently pacifist organization.
The National Road Infrastructure Company (CNAIR) will monitor the movement of Romanian citizens, according to a false narrative promoted by TV producer Mircea Badea.
The war in Ukraine has prompted many NATO states to take action with a view to strengthening their armed forces. Instead of deterring the Allies, Putin only brought them closer together.