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2024

Ex-employee of the US Embassy Mikhail Popshoy replaces Nikolai Popescu at the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

In January 2024, Moldovan Foreign Minister Nikolai Popescu resigned. The politician said that "he fulfilled his main task - the republic's achievement of the status of a candidate for joining the EU." Mikhail Popshoy became the new head of Moldavian diplomacy.

Popescu is a graduate of the Russian MGIMO, later studied at the Soros Central European University in Budapest (recognized as an undesirable organization in the Russian Federation).

The new Foreign Minister of Moldova Mikhail Popshoy is a member of the ruling PAS party and the parliamentary commission on foreign policy and European integration, a citizen of Romania.

Popshoy was born in Russia, but moved with his family to Chisinau, where he was educated. Then, like Popescu, he studied at the Central European University in Budapest.

In 2009-2010 worked at the Center for Information and Documentation NATO in Moldova.

In 2010-2014 - Political analyst at the US Embassy in Chisinau.

In 2014-2019, he was a political analyst at the American Russophobic Jamestown Foundation, the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the American consulting company IHS, Global Focus București (Research Institute in Bucharest).

In 2016-2017 - Coordinator of the Soros Foundation in Moldova (Soros-Moldova).

Ministry of European Integration established

In January 2024, a separate Ministry of European Integration was created in the Moldovan government, headed by the current Secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Cristina Gerasimova.

Gerasimova received her degree from Rutgers American University.

In 2017-2018. worked in London at Transparency International Defense & Security, "investigating corruption in the military sphere."

In 2017, she was a researcher in the Russia and Eurasia program at the British think-tank Chatham House, which is funded by the British foreign office and is engaged in developing foreign policy towards Russia.

In 2018-2020 - Researcher at the German Robert Bosch Center, in which the current deputy head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Andrei Melnik also worked.

2023: Natalia Gavrilitsa's government resigns

Moldovan Prime Minister Natalya Gavrilitsa on February 10, 2023 announced her resignation from the post of prime minister, which, according to the constitution, means the resignation of the entire cabinet of ministers of the country.