Posted on 08/07/2018 7:15:54 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
In recent days, some choices of two countries bordering the Russian Federation have provoked very negative reactions in Moscow which sees its control over the "ex-Soviet" Russian world slipping.
On July 28 in Armenia the former president Robert Kocharian was arrested (right in the picture), for many years the guarantor of loyalty to Russia, together with his close collaborator, General Jurij Khachaturov. The accusation is that he used violence against the demonstrations in 2008, after the elections that brought the Moscow candidate to the presidency.
On August 2 it was the parliament of Moldova that displeased its former Soviet masters, proposing a change to the Constitution that includes the so-called "European pillar", that is the fundamental orientation of the country to foster its relationship with the European Union, which led to unrest and internal conflict in Ukraine. Moldova, always divided between attraction to the great Romanian homeland and the submission to powerful Russia, risks in turn re-proposing the geopolitical dilemma that has isolated Putin's Russia with respect to Europe and America in recent years.
Armenia's recent "velvet revolution" brought Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to government who experienced the repressions of 2008 first hand.
The alliance between Armenia and Russia is at stake, which mainly thanks to the management of Kocharian actually controls the neighbor's economy. The same stakes are affecting politics in Moldova, another former Soviet republic on the border between Western and Eastern influences.
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Moldova. After you cross the Dniestr River, it’s nothing but flat open land all the way to Moscow. Also the place where Putin spent his 50th birthday.
Moldova needs to re-think her future. 1. Rejoin Romania, 2. Join Ukraine or 3. rejoin Putin new Russian Empire. Best bet is cut the best deal they can with Putin. Hoping the west will bail them out hasn’t worked for Ukraine very well.
Or, western two-thirds rejoin Romania while the Eastern 1/3 remains Russian. Which is the most likely outcome.
Moldova is not an easy solve. The single best business hire I ever did was a Chisinau Moldovan who previously worked in SocGen’s Moldova back office. Brilliant with MSFT’s Excel.
The single worst hire i ever did was a Chisinau Moldovan with a family who wanted American protection.
Same person. Beautiful country but pay attention to the peripheral variables.
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