Moldova

The threat of coronavirus looms large in six self-declared republics that have broken away from post-Soviet states. War and isolation have corroded health care infrastructure, while obstructing the inflow of assistance. International actors should work with local and regional leaders to let life-saving aid through.

Unresolved conflicts and breakaway territories divide five out of six of the European Union’s Eastern Partnership countries, most of them directly backed by the Russian Federation. But a policy of isolating the people living in these conflict regions narrows the road to peace.

Конфликт в Приднестровской области Респуб­лики Молдова в меньшей степени обременен эксцессами межэтнической ненависти и давними претензиями одного народа к другому, чем другие конфликты в зоне ответственности Организации по безопасности и сотрудничеству в Европе (ОБСЕ).