Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine: The Fragility of Pro-European Paths in the Post-Soviet Space – COMMENTARY

The fight for European integration amidst Russian influence and ongoing conflict

22 October 2024

Vitaly Portnikov

Future of Ukraine Fellow

As Moldova grapples with recent elections and rising pro-Russian sentiment, the struggle for European integration underscores the delicate aspirations of post-Soviet nations.

An exasperated President Maia Sandu addressed reporters briefly the night after Moldova’s presidential election and referendum on European integration, citing widespread voter bribery.

By morning, it became clear that pro-EU supporters were narrowly leading in the referendum, and Sandu herself had advanced to the second round alongside Socialist candidate Alexandr Stoianoglo. Sandu called on her supporters for another fight, urging them to stop ‘the return of the (pro-Russian – Ed.) thugs to power’.

A victory for Sandu in the second round is far from assured, raising the possibility that Moldova, like Georgia, could abandon its European path.

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Vitaly Portnikov

Future of Ukraine Fellow

Vitaly is a Visegrad Insight Fellow as of 2022. He is also an author and renowned journalist working in democratic media in Central and Eastern Europe for more than three decades. He is the author of hundreds of analytical articles in Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish, Russian, Israeli, Baltic media. He hosts television programs and his own analytical channels on YouTube. He is currently broadcasting at the office of the Espreso TV channel in Lviv and continues to cooperate with the Ukrainian and Russian services of Radio Liberty. On the Russian service of Radio Liberty, he continues the project about the post-Soviet space “Roads to Freedom”, which was aired first from Moscow, then from Kyiv, and is now being produced in Lviv as a joint project of Radio Liberty, the Current Time TV channel and the Espreso TV channel.

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