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Moldova, Russia
New Russian-Moldovan employers' organisation hires Moldova's ex-president Dodon

Former president of Moldova, Igor Dodon. © Dumitru Doru/Efe/Newscom/MaxPPP

Russian business diplomacy has a new asset in Moldova in ex-president Igor Dodon, bolstering the influence it already has through Boris Titov's dynasty and the soft-power institution Rossotrudnichestvo. [...]

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