Russia, Ukraine, CIS
"ChrisD(RJ)" <chrisd at russiajournal.com>
Moldova, under the leadership of the CP, has been trying to move closer to Russia ans reinstate teaching of Russian in Moldovan schools. When the right-nationalists held a demonstration opposing this, they actually had to bus people into Chisenau and pay them to get them to march for "patriotic values." National independence for Moldova has resulted in its becoming the poorest country in Europe. Like it's meant plummeting living standards for everybody else in the CIS. Most people came to the conclusion that breaking up the USSR -- with its extremely close inter-Republic economic integration and cooperation -- was just dumb dumb dumb.
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CB: So what are they going to do about it ?