Chisinau, Moldova rarely makes it on to the world stage or the front pages of newspapers, but on March 2, 2018, statesmen and experts from Europe and the United States descended on the city to buck the trend. During a high-level inter-parliamentary security conference held on that day for Eastern Partnership countries, the speakers of parliaments from Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine—Irakli Kobakhidze, Andrian Candu, and Andriy Parubiy—issued a joint statement denouncing Russian aggression in their territories. What binds these three disparate countries—the small, Romanian-speaking Moldova; the war-torn Ukraine, officially the largest European country by landmass; and the mountainous Georgia of …read more
Source: The American Interest
