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My classmate, Putin’s foe
Maia Sandu, now Moldova’s president, shares her fears on the revanchist threat posed by Russia to the former Soviet satellite states.
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Moldova President Maia Sandu has been lauded in the Western media for her resolve in facing down Russian President Vladimir Putin.
PHOTO: PRESIDENT’S OFFICE OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA
The woods are Maia Sandu’s sanctuary. On the rare weekends when she can get away from the unceasing work of running a country, she heads out into the countryside of Moldova – to feel the soil beneath her, and to breathe.
Sometimes, she is with her sister Veronica; at other times, with her dog, a rescue stray aptly called Codrut – “Little Forest” in Romanian, the main language used in the eastern European nation of some 2.5 million wedged between Ukraine and Romania.
