As Russia hiked gas prices, a Russia-backed party has led protests against the pro-Europe government, sometimes paying people to participate. Moldovans protest high prices in the capital, Chisinau, last November. The United States and its partners should urgently unify efforts to help Moldovans sustain their independence and stability. A Kremlin-backed party won a Moldovan regional election in May and Moscow will aim to defeat Moldova’s pro-European national government in elections by 2025. Russia has maneuvered for years to scuttle Moldovans’ aims to join the European Union, crimping their economy and controlling easternmost Moldova with Russian troops and proxies. At a sensitive edge of Russia’s war on Ukraine, Moscow is sustaining a campaign to regain control in Moldova, the small, ex-Soviet republic landlocked between Ukraine and Romania.
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