INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Geopolitics, oligarchs and the Moldova miracle*

Little Moldova does not receive much media attention in the English-speaking world. It is fair to say that a large number of Australians, Britons and Americans have probably never heard of this sliver of a country.



When the country does appear in the headlines, the articles usually employ the same less than flattering description of Moldova as the poorest and least visited country in Europe. It was once even dubbed the “least happy nation on the planet”, a land…

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