Vasyl Kizka

Speaker of the Moldovan parliament Yevgeniya OSTAPCHUK continues to be a dark horse for politicians and the common people alike, both inside and outside Moldova. She is not rich and her home in Soroky several hundred meters from the Moldova-Ukraine border looks like any other in the town. Her...

The rule of Petru Lucinschi has been rich in surprises: last summer Moldova turned into a parliamentary republic, and in late February it became the first post-Soviet country where Communists came to power through elections. Moldova’s experience has shown that politics in the post-Soviet states...