Outside the government building in Comrat, the capital of Gagauzia, a group of gardeners takes care of plants in a small plot next to a statue of Russia’s communist revolutionary, Vladimir Lenin.
Across the street is a Turkish library named after Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
The statue and the library together point to the dilemma faced by the Gagauzians, a Turkic and Russian-speaking minority in an autonomous region of about 160,000 people in Southern Moldova.
Russia’s fall-out with Turkey over the downing of a Russian warplane and the two countries’ support for opposing sides in the Syrian conflict has sparked fears …read more
Source: Voice of America
