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Moldovan Foreign Minister Mihai Popsoi speaking in Berlin. December 12, 2025, 1:08 PM

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Moldova, which is among Europe’s poorest nations, has battled through years of high-level corruption , oligarchic influence over politics, and a brief war with a breakaway republic, Transnistria, in the early 1990s.

But a 2025 poll from the International Republican Institute showed that nearly half of all Moldovans believe that the country is going in the right direction, the highest number in 20 years. Since the el

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