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After leaving office, former President of Moldova Ihor Dodon relies on allowance from Kremlin-associated oligarchs

The past week underscores a rising threat in Europe from Russia’s savage assault on Ukraine: the Kremlin’s parallel destabilization of tiny Moldova, between Ukraine and Romania. The Kremlin is escalating a hybrid subversion campaign against Moldova’s effort to build a stable democracy and join the European Union. It is choking off vital gas supplies to tank the economy, sponsoring mass anti-government protests and helping a fugitive Moldovan oligarch launch the latest of several pro-Russia political parties. European policymakers say Moldova, partly occupied by Russian troops, is one of ...

The Rise.md findings show that Igor Dodon has in recent months received payments in rubles from the kremlin-linked association Entrepreneurial Russia.

Moldova’s Newsmaker media outlet on Monday released a story compiled by the RISE Moldova community of Moldovan and Romanian investigative journalists and Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Dossier Center alleging that cooperation between the Moldovan-Russian Business Union and Russia’s public organization Business Russia is geared towards stopping the West’s influence on Moldova

Ilan Shor is a shady businessman, convicted of fraud in connection with the biggest bank heist ever in Moldova. Now, Russia's Federal Security Service is allegedly bankrolling the Israeli-based oligarch to destabilize the former Soviet republic.