According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, spending on research and development in Moldova amounted to 0.23% of GDP in 2025. This amounts to 825.6 million lei (or 17.4 euros per capita).
The volume of air traffic in Moldova continues to grow. For example, on Saturday, August 8, according to EUROCONTROL, there were 176 arrivals and departures.
The National Energy Regulatory Agency (ANRE) has published new maximum prices that will apply to petroleum products starting tomorrow, August 11.
Customs Service officials conducted three searches in southern Moldova as part of a criminal investigation into the smuggling of tobacco products.
Beekeepers in the village of Costesti, in the Ialoveni District, account for 40% of all honey exports from the Republic of Moldova.
Bitcoin traded near the $65,000 mark on Monday, holding its ground after rising above that level following an unexpectedly weak U.S. jobs report. Investors are exercising caution ahead of the release of inflation data and are monitoring developments in the Middle East.
U.S. President Donald Trump has made it clear that he is prepared to intensify economic pressure on Iran rather than order a new military offensive.
Moldova is preparing proposals to provide Ukraine with 20 locomotives.
From August 3 to 9, 2026, revenue from the Customs Service to the state budget totaled more than 847.3 million lei. Since the beginning of this year, approximately 25.42 billion lei has been collected for the state treasury, representing 102.5% of the target.
Adrian Rezmeriță, a native of Moldova, has opened numerous Polonez stores in Ireland that sell goods from Eastern Europe, including Romania. The local Moldovan-Romanian diaspora is among the stores’ primary target customers.
The cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has filed a civil lawsuit against North Korea, its intelligence agency, and the Pyongyang-linked hacking group Lazarus.
The phone call between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and U.S. President Donald Trump, which took place on August 8, lasted more than 40 minutes.
Member of Parliament Constantin Cuiumju will appeal to the Chamber of Accounts, the National Agency for Energy Regulation (ANRE), and the Ministry of Energy, demanding that they evaluate the gas procurement mechanism: “The public should not have to pay for Energocom’s mistakes.”
The National Bank of Moldova (NBM) imposed a fine of 264,292.57 lei on the administrator of an insurance agent after identifying a number of violations of legal requirements governing the conduct of business.
Although Ukraine has increased its meat exports 33-fold this year, Moldova purchases virtually no meat from Ukraine.
The National Agency for Communications Regulation (ARCOM) has decided to establish a unified technical mechanism for the implementation of the mobile number verification API by mobile operators in the Republic of Moldova—S.A. “Moldtelecom,” Î.M. “Orange Moldova” S.A., and S.A. “Moldcell,” with the aim of preventing and combating caller ID spoofing (CLI spoofing).
The Ministry of Finance has completed work on a draft government resolution that transposes the European Commission’s decision on technical standards for safety features applied to tobacco products into national law.
The National Road Transport Agency (ANTA) has urged road transport operators, businesses, and related entities to exercise the utmost caution and strictly comply with legal provisions regarding the transport of dangerous goods, especially during periods of high temperatures (during heat waves).
After the FSB announced on July 29 that it had opened a criminal case against Pavel Durov, and Rosfinmonitoring added him to its list of terrorists and extremists, scammers began urging Russians to urgently transfer their crypto assets “to secure wallets.”
A U.S. federal appeals court has ordered the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to halt construction of a $400 million ballroom at the White House.
