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Democracy Digest: Gas, Guns and Graft

Gazprom cuts off gas to Poland and Bulgaria, the Czechs discuss defence cooperation with the US, and Hungary becomes the first target of the EU’s new mechanism to withhold funds from member states that break the rule of law. Russia has been trying to split the West for years, with …

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Ukraine War is Spreading To Moldova’s Breakaway Transnistria Region

The separatist authorities in Tiraspol are being pulled steadily into the war between Russia and Ukraine despite their best efforts not to get involved. Given its geographical proximity to Ukraine, and the high number of Ukrainian citizens living in the Transnistria, the de-facto authorities of the breakaway Moldovan region have …

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