Pro-West Leader Wins High-Stakes Vote in Former Soviet Republic
Pro-West Leader Wins High-Stakes Vote in Former Soviet Republic
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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.
They didn’t even name the country in the headline? What is this? Does NY Times think its readers have never heard of Moldova?
The clicks don’t bait themselves
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