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.

  • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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    24 days ago

    I…i didn’t even say democracy is a western thing, what are you on about?

    Edit: you might be mistakenly replied to my comment i think

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      24 days ago

      You said that western europe is pro democracy and eastern europe is pro Russia, which is an idea that I thought missed out on the historical context.

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        24 days ago

        No i said pro western europe/EU vs pro eastern europe/russia. There’s no democracy in my word, none, nada.