#MOLDOVA: Undermined by bribery. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 25 October 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | Sanito Leven of the Quincy Institute for Responsible State Craft, he's writing most recently of the Georgian election upcoming. |
| 0:37.0 | An election behind us took place in Moldova. |
| 0:40.0 | In these last days, there was a surprise, but not entirely, of the vote. |
| 0:45.2 | It was about joining the EU. |
| 0:47.6 | It was close, and one of the reasons given by the FT yesterday and by Reuters today is there is a pro-Russian |
| 0:55.3 | tycoon who poured a huge amount of money into I believe part of the ethnic |
| 1:01.2 | makeup of Moldova and that led to a contest. |
| 1:06.0 | The headline in Reuters New explanation, Moldovan police say pro-Russian tycoon shore |
| 1:11.6 | channeled 39 million to bribe voters. Now Anatole Moldova is in a very difficult |
| 1:18.7 | position to maintain anything alike its future because it's wrapped inside the Odessa Bloss under |
| 1:27.0 | under siege by the Russian forces since 22 it's up against the Danube in Romania, a member of NATO is right across the river. |
| 1:36.3 | The Black Sea Basin entirely is militarized. |
| 1:39.4 | So the significance of this |
| 1:43.7 | the berry allegation and the vote to join the EU does Moldova have a way out of this or is it going to be |
| 1:47.0 | buried in controversy? |
| 1:50.0 | Well to be perfectly honest, the most sensible thing would be for the greater part of Moldova to join Romania because Moldov's are Romanian speakers and Moldova was part of Romania |
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