Moldova's President Maia Sandu said the authorities have clear evidence of malign interference and "fraud of unprecedented proportions" at the vote on0. With the presidential elections now going into the second round,

Voters in Moldova will cast their ballots Sunday in two crucial votes, which have been billed as the most consequential in the country’s post-Soviet history. One is for president, the other a referendum on eventual European Union membership.

Hoping to end to an argument that has dragged on since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moldovans voted on Sunday to decide whether to enshrine in their Constitution an “irreversible” commitment to leave Russia’s orbit of influence and one day join the European Union.