Sorokin in Chisinau: “The Day of the Oprichnik is too nice to describe Russia today. 1984 is more appropriate.”

“The Russian political system is not created by Putin. This is a pyramid of power created by Ivan the Terrible in the 16th century. It’s a medieval system.”

A new Moldovan summer hit: “Let me marry Iura, as he showed me his figure, teeth and muscles” 😂 youtu.be/pafIa34YMOk?si…

Happy Moldova flag day! This one’s from a Chisinau taxi driver who got his idea for the trio from Tbilisi taxi drivers. He came back from Moscow during the war, after living there for decades

Posters pretending to be from the French Legion have turned up in the centre of Chisinau. “Join and change lives - French Legion”, the posters say, giving no contact details. And using the wrong grammar. Pro-Kremlin groups have started using these messages. Aim? Claim EU=war

Excellent from Paula Erizanu on calls for negotiations in 🇺🇦:

'Moldovans fear escalation not because we haven’t sat down at negotiation tables with Russians but because we have, and the result was deeply damaging. Ukraine must not make the same mistake.'

nytimes.com/2024/04/23/opi…

Moldovans fear escalation not because we haven’t sat down at negotiation tables w/Russians, but because we have & the result was deeply damaging. Ukraine must not make the same mistake: Paula Erizanu nytimes.com/2024/04/23/opi…

“More and more people, including Pope Francis, are asking Ukraine to drop its defense and sit at the negotiation table with Russia,” writes Paula Erizanu. “My country, Moldova, knows all about that kind of bargain.” Read: nyti.ms/4dazJsz

People ask Ukraine to sit at the negotiations table with Russia. But Moldova has tried doing it several times since the 1992 Russian-Moldovan war in Transnistria. The result? Russian troops are still here. My New York Times Op Ed
nytimes.com/2024/04/23/opi…