It’s not often that the United States and Russia find common ground in Eastern Europe, and it’s even rarer that one of Europe’s poorest countries inspires cautious optimism. Yet that is just what has happened in tiny, landlocked Moldova last month, as popular unrest against oligarchic rule and the outside mediation of American, Russian, and EU diplomats forced a resolution to a simmering constitutional crisis. On June 14, Moldova’s former Prime Minister stepped aside to make way for an untested new coalition government, after a week of recalcitrant refusal to do so.Yet this seemingly favorable resolution leaves in its wake …read more
Source: The American Interest
