Victor Juc: Ukraine has a vital interest that a pro-European government continues in Moldova after the autumn elections

The Director of the Institute of Legal, Political and Sociological Research of the Moldovan State University, Victor Juc, gave an interview for the FES/APE Foreign Policy Bulletin in which we discussed potential trilateral co-operation between Romania, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine and what such a collaboration would mean.

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Serghei Gerasymiuk: We are fortunate that Bucharest, Chisinau, and Kyiv have been on the same side of history so far

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I’ve always had a lot of respect for investigative journalists who don’t bend towards power

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