After #Belarus a number of other important elections are held in Eastern Europe and Caucasus. #Ukraine had it's local elections, #Georgia parliamentary & #Moldova has Presidential elections today. @ecfr 's Andrew Wilson linked them, w suggestions for #EU https://ecfr.eu/publication/lessons_from_belarus_how_eu_can_support_clean_elections_in_moldova_georgia/
Lessons from Belarus: How the EU can support clean elections in Moldova and Georgia

The EU should make use of its significant leverage in Georgia and Moldova to counter their ruling parties’ extensive repertoire of electoral dirty tricks

https://ecfr.eu/publication/lessons_from_belarus_how_eu_can_support_clean_elections_in_moldova_georgia/
In 2019 the Russian, EU & US envoys supported an impossible coalition between pro-Kremlin President Dodon and his pro-Western critics, Maia Sandu & Andrei Nastase = ACUM block, to oust a corrupt oligarch, allegedly involved in the Russian laundromat scheme https://www.dw.com/en/moldovas-oligarch-in-chief-has-fled-will-europes-poorest-country-remain-a-captured-state/a-49348875
Will Moldova remain a 'captured' state?

The Democratic Party of Moldova is no longer in power and its former leader, Vladimir Plahotniuc, has fled the country. What are the prospects for change?

https://www.dw.com/en/moldovas-oligarch-in-chief-has-fled-will-europes-poorest-country-remain-a-captured-state/a-49348875
Six months before a corrupt oligarch in #Moldova was ousted, I argued that a coalition with pro-Kremlin's Dodon will be akin to a "kompromat" (compromising material against them). I also wrote a backgrounder about each of them in that blog post.
https://vlad-lupan.blogspot.com/2019/02/moldovan-elections-with-kompromat-twist.html?showComment=1570265995687
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