Like Ukraine, its eastern neighbor and fellow former Soviet republic, Moldova is struggling to keep from being turned into a puppet of Russia once more.
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An opposition leader from Moldova has claimed that the country's President Maia Sandu and Premier Dorin Recean are planning to conduct military provocation.