Chisinau - Moldova's top election monitoring agency warned the ruling Communist party to pay its political advertising bills or face legal action, the Infotag news agency reported Wednesday.

Moldova's Communists currently hold a two-third majority in parliament, with new elections set for April 5.

The Communist Party of Moldova was ignoring invoices for advertising in the national newspaper Kommunist, and if the bill is not cleared the party could face a lawsuit, an official at Moldova's Central Election Commission (CEC) said.

Chisinau  - Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin ordered most government officials take lie detector tests as part of a national anti-corruption programme, Infotag news agency reported Wednesday.

Polygraph tests would be mandatory for persons seeking employment in the police, the national intelligence agency, customs, border patrol, military, and prosecutors' offices, according to the presidential order.

Chisinau - A week-long Russian embargo of natural gas deliveries to Moldova had left the former Soviet republic with idled factories and increasingly cold homes, the Infotag news agency reported.

The Kremlin in a row with Kiev over natural gas deliveries on January 7 cut off all fuel shipments through Ukraine to Europe. The move severed all natural gas deliveries to Moldova.

Chisinau, Moldova - A senior Moldovan official on Tuesday floated an offer of extensive autonomy to the renegade province Transnistria, in a unprecedented bid to end one of the world's most intract

Chisinau, Moldova- A Sudanese cargo plane crashed near the Moldovan capital Chisinau killing all

Chisinau, Moldova - Moldova will restart talks with its renegade province Transnistria a