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Can Moldova set an example for Ukraine?
An unexpected alliance between Russia, the United States and the European Union helped broker a political breakthrough in Moldova – sending corrupt local oligarchs packing. There is no reason to discount the latest developments in Chisinau, which could prove a new dawn for Europe’s poorest country. Yet the West has fallen for fresh-faced reformers before – in 1990s Russia, and during two “color revolutions” in Ukraine – and each time the love affair ended in disappointment.
Stable Moldova is key to southeast Europe’s stability
Arriving in Moldova, a strongly agricultural country with huge social problems, I was told I could feel perfectly safe. The reason, I was told, was because all the thieves and robbers are concentrated in government, parliament and the political parties so they are not on the streets, writes Prince Michael ...
Could Moldova be another pawn between West and Russia?
Moldova was part of the Soviet Union from the Second World until the end of the Cold War in 1991 when it became independent. A strip of land east of the River Dniester, close the Ukraine border, split away from Moldova and has been under the control of the breakaway ...
