The government enforces a 60-day state of emergency over an anticipated Russian gas cut-off in 2025.

The parliament of Moldova, a small Romanian-speaking nation sandwiched between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the east, has approved a request from the cabinet of Dorin Recean to declare a 60-day state of emergency.

The government in Chisinau is preparing for a complete halt in Russian natural gas supply starting 1 January 2025, following Ukraine’s decision not to extend the gas transit agreement with Russia.

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A crisis plan has been devised for accelerated interconnection with the European Union’s power system, via Romanian power grids and building new domestic energy-generating capacities.

The government recently fired its energy minister over alleged failure to renegotiate the gas contract with Gazprom. 

The country, which has a predominantly agricultural economy, is currently unsustainable from an energy perspective, as almost all of its electricity is generated from Russian gas. Even its largest power plant, in Cuciurgan, amd the domestic gas distributor Moldova-Gaz have been under Russian control for decades.

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A candidate for E.U. membership along with Ukraine, this nation of 2.5 million residents has faced Moscow’s economic and political pressure since breaking away from the Soviet Union in 1991. Chisinau has officially condemned Russia for invading its neighbor and moderately sided by Western sanctions. 

Russia, which sponsored an armed insurgency in Moldova’s eastern region of Transnistria and supported its separation from Moldova after a brief war 33 years ago, is now waging hybrid warfare against this Eastern European country and keeps a 2,000-3,000 strong contingent of troops in the breakaway enclave.

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