The son of the head of Romania’s Communist-era state run propaganda bureau, Vladimir Socor, is hopping mad over the possibility that Moldova’s president Vladimir Voronin is trying to make friends and influence people outside of the orbit of Socor’s friends (the younger Socor switched allegiances and is now employed by an outfit connected to Bush VP Dick Cheney).

Vladimir Socor can’t stand that the president of this country is talking happily to Russia, about this and that, and maybe Transdniestria, too, without the permission of the European Union.

Imagine that.

I mean, a sovereign country talking directly to Russia. Whatever next? Admittedly a tiny, and extremely poor sovereign country, slightly on the wrong side of the Ukraine to think about linking bits of it with Russia, but really. . .

The EU and other donors are pouring money into Moldova (with what motivation, you might well ask) . . . but then again, they do that in many countries in the world.

Apparently the EU is spitting blood over this. I don’t know. Voronin is probably doing what he, in his infinite wisdom, thinks is best for his constituency (he was elected by the voters of Moldova, not by anyone from Transdniestria).

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