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    With war next door, Moldova faces a dilemma as Eastern Europe's most vulnerable state

    One of Europe's poorest countries, Moldova has a separatist region that hosts 1,500 Russian troops. Since the Ukraine war, Moldova's applied to join the EU, even as it keeps a policy of neutrality.
    by Frank Langfitt Apr 15, 2022 4 minutes
    A soldier and a woman walk past the headquarters for Russian troops in September 2021 in the town of Tiraspol, in Trans-Dniester, a pro-Russian region that declared independence from Moldova but is internationally unrecognized. Russia has stationed 1,500 soldiers in the area.

    CHISINAU, Moldova — Ion Manole, a human rights lawyer here, received a phone call before dawn on Feb. 24 from a colleague who told him to open his window so he could hear the sound of Russian missiles exploding in the distance.

    At first, Manole thought Russian troops were attacking this small, Eastern European country, which is wedged between Ukraine and Romania. Manole, who runs Promo-LEX, a human rights organization, has won dozens of cases against Russia over abuses in Trans-Dniester, a separatist region of Moldova that is home to about 1,500 Russian troops.

    Manole feared that if Russian soldiers came to Chisinau, they'd detain him.

    "Everybody was scared," he says, referring to people in the Moldovan capital. "We

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