Hello, by Kate Adi. Hello. Today are the Russians coming?

We hear from a corner of Europe where they'd be far from unwelcome.

Meanwhile a quarter of a century after communism in Romania, the secrets are still emerging.

There's horror at an old tea-planta's club in Assam, as our man confesses he doesn't know how to play bridge.

And in the heart of High-tech Digital California,

we find a place where they still revere the old-fashioned printed word.

President Obama's been talking on the... old-fashioned printed word.

President Obama's been talking on the phone to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.

It's the first direct contact between the two men since the West imposed sanctions after Russia's annexation of Crimea.

American experts meanwhile have been pouring over maps, trying to work out where the Russians

might march next. The small breakaway state of Transnistria, technically

part of Europe's poorest nation, Moldova, is considered by some to be at risk. The territory became separated from the rest of Moldova in a brief

war in 1992 and today its 300,000 people are governed by a regime backed by Moscow.

Humphrey Hawksley has been to one Moldovan village

that ended up as an enclave within Transinistria.

Are villages there worried about their future?

As it flows down from the mountains, the Nistru River twists and turns through Europe's porous country, Moldova.

Just north of the rundown village of Conchiorare, it creates a horseshoe shape,

across the bottom of which is an old ceasefire line,

marked now by a checkpoint and a bored Russian soldier.

The drab flat agricultural land that runs from the

checkpoint to the river banks is controlled by the Moldovan government. On the

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