Putin Sets Stage for Upheaval in Another Country
Anew Moscow-backed political grouping in Moldova has Vladimir Putin's support to destabilize the former Soviet country as it seeks European Union membership, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has said.
Ilan Shor, a U.S.-sanctioned fugitive oligarch, has announced the creation of the pro-Russian electoral bloc, which plans to run a candidate in Moldova's presidential elections on October 20.
However, Dionis Cenusa, an expert on Moldovan politics, told Newsweek an overt Moscow operation in Moldova could backfire for the Kremlin because it would increase the chances of current President Maia Sandu winning the next election, which would be "a serious miss for Russia and its pawns."
Shor was sentenced in absentia in 2017 for a scandal involving the embezzlement of $1 billion from the country's banks and now lives in Israel, where he was born.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-sets-stage-for-upheaval-in-another-country/ar-AA1nstgm?ocid=nl_article_link
Pooty Poot needs to worry about his own country. It's not doing well if he hasn't noticed.
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Assholes like gingrich, bannon and a few others set up shop in the EU ten or so years ago?
