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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Aurel Obreja and Stephen McGrath

Moldova protesters want energy subsidies, president to quit

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Several thousand protesters rallied in Moldova’s capital Sunday to demand that the country's new pro-Western government fully cover citizens' winter heating bills amid a cost-of-living crisis and skyrocketing inflation.

The protest was organized by a recently formed group called Movement for the People and supported by members of Moldova’s Russia-friendly Shor Party, which holds six seats in the former Soviet republic’s 101-seat legislature.

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