The professorial, polyglot Mr Lupu would certainly raise Moldova's international profile (it could hardly be lower).
Russia's foreign ministry said there was a plot aimed at undermining "the sovereignty of Moldova".
Moldova is one of the poorest countries in Europeand is a major wine producer.
Mr Lieberman was born in 1958 in Kishinev in the USSR, now Chisinau in Moldova.
The Israelis are two points back from Greece in third after beating Moldova 3-1.
When Romania banned inter-country adoption, agencies moved to lightly regulated Moldova and then Ukraine.
In the weeks before the poll, dozens of Russians were arrested in Moldova, accused of spying.
The Communist leader, President Vladimir Voronin, had pledged to continue Moldova's push towards European integration.
The centrist Democratic Moldova bloc, which wants improved ties with Russia and the West, won 28.4%.
The EU will be tempted to nod through any settlement that gets Moldova off its conscience.
Moldova insists that any peace deal must include the departure of Mr Antufeyev and his colleagues.
Over 50 youth organisations from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, and Uzbekistan joint the project.
Every third household in Moldova is said to have a family member working in Russia.
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Born in Moldova, he is one of the million Israelis who immigrated from the former Soviet Union.
Asked to list successes, officials point hesitantly to the recent help that Poland has given to Moldova.
One fifth of poor urban young people in Moldova, for example, have not completed lower secondary school.
It also threatened last week to blockade Moldova's rail system, if a debt is not paid promptly.
We showed our Moldovan visas, and that was when we were told that we were not in Moldova.
Instead of rising to the level of Europe, Moldova risks being dragged down to the level of Transdniestria.
It has done this for the Balkan countries, which are no more European and no less troubled than Moldova.
One of them, a 19-year-old from Moldova, says none of the eight girls working there has ever been paid.
Moldova looks stuck in a wretched economic and geographical plight, a country not so much forgotten as never remembered.
Beyond this, I continue to address difficult situations such as in Chechnya, the Balkans, southern Caucasus, Moldova and Ukraine.
Moldova and Azerbaijan, for example, have headaches with similar entities, Transdniestria and Nagorno-Karabakh.
Poland supports this, in return for Hungarian backing for more EU aid to countries such as Georgia, Moldova and Belarus.
Donors came from Moldova, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkey and lived in "extreme poverty or acute financial distress", the indictment said.
According to the World Heath Organization report, the country topping the tables of annual alcohol consumption per person is Moldova.
The Romanian language version of the book is available at the website of the Association of Independent Press of Moldova.
The Kremlin now hopes to gain a bigger prize pulling all Moldova into Russia's sphere of security, economic and linguistic influence.
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