The pro-Western president of Moldova, Maia Sandu, won re-election on Sunday in a high-stakes runoff vote in the former Soviet republic against a rival candidate she had denounced as “Moscow’s man.”
The vote — held a week after a contested election in Georgia, another former Soviet territory, handed victory to the Moscow-leaning governing party — has been closely watched by the United States, the European Union and Russia as a critical test of Moldova’s direction.
They didn’t even name the country in the headline? What is this? Does NY Times think its readers have never heard of Moldova?
Why is it “pro-western” instead of “pro-democracy”?
Yeah, but those Eastern European countries aren’t physically moving westward. They’re just trying to institute democracy.
It’s not moving country it’s political alignment, it’s a battle between pro western europe(EU) party vs pro eastern europe(russia) party, democracy is how they fight.
Eastern Europe just means formerly Russian, It does not have a geographic or cultural meaning.
What a shit click bait title. BBC does it right as usual: “Pro-EU leader claims Moldova victory despite alleged Russian meddling”
How long till she suffers an “unfortunate accident?”
