Reuters Thousands take part in anti-government protest in Moldova Moldova buys its gas from the Russian gas giant Gazprom under a contract that was drawn up last year. “Moldova is now in clinical death, to which the current authorities have brought it,” said Dinu Turcanu, a politician from an opposition party of Ilan Shor, a businessman convicted of fraud in connection with a $1 billion bank scandal. Moldova, the smallest post-Soviet state of 3.5 million people, is experiencing serious economic difficulties associated with high energy prices, the cost of which has increased by 29% in September after surging almost 50% in August.
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