2023 in Moldova

• 1 January:
  • The law for the 2023 state budget enters force, with the following numbers: a government revenue amassing 64.8 billion Moldovan lei, 83.1 billion lei spendings and a budget deficit of 18.3 billion lei.[1]
  • Changes to Moldova's election code enter force, excepting those for regional elections, that are bound to enter force on 1 January 2024.[2]
• 14 January – Due to a wave of Russian missile strikes against Ukraine during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, a missile falls within the territory of Moldova, in the village of Larga.[3][4]

• 10 February:
  • A Russian missile launched as part of an attack against Ukrainian infrastructure crosses the airspace of Moldova.[5]
  • Moldovan prime minister Natalia Gavrilita resigns amid an economic crisis and the collateral effects of the ongoing war in neighboring Ukraine.[6]
• 11 February – Moldovan President Maia Sandu names pro-European Union academic Dorin Recean as the next Prime Minister of Moldova.[7]
• 13 February – President of Moldova Maia Sandu accuses the Russian government of planning a coup d'état attempt against her.[8]
• 14 February – 2023 Romania and Moldova high-altitude objects: Moldova temporarily closes its airspace after receiving reports of a "balloon-like object".[9]
• 22 February – Russian President Vladimir Putin revokes a 2012 foreign policy decree which respects Moldova's sovereignty in resolving the political status of the breakaway Transnistria region.[10]

• 16 March – The Moldovan parliament approves a law that formally declares the country's official language as Romanian.[11]

• 13 April – A Court of Appeal of the Republic of Moldova sentence the pro-Russian oligarch Ilan Shor to 15 years in prison in absentia.[12]

Scheduled:

• Spring:
  • 2nd European Political Community Summit[13][14]
  • 2023 Gagauzian gubernatorial election[15][16]
• October – 2023 Moldovan local elections