THE PRIME MINISTER OF MOLDOVA, NATALIA GAVRILITA, FEARS HER COUNTRY IS PUTIN’S NEXT TARGET
Mar 18, 2022
4 minutes
BY CHARLIE CAMPBELL/CHISINAU, MOLDOVA
NATALIA GAVRILITA KNOWS SHE’S IN A TIGHT spot. It is after all the job of Moldova’s Prime Minister to project an air of control, an easy calm, the sense that everything will work out fine. But the humanitarian fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is fraying the seams of her nation, Europe’s poorest by some metrics. So as we wrap up our interview, chatting before her nation’s tricolor flag, she double-checks herself.
“Perhaps I should have been stronger on the need for help,” she muses aloud. “Because we need green corridors [taking refugees to third countries], we need assistance, we need expertise, we need
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