Europe | On the edge

Moldova fears it may fall victim to a Russian coup plot

But the West is rallying round the tiny former Soviet republic

TIRASPOL, MOLDOVA - AUGUST 14: Children play on a soviet tank monument in the capital city of the Russia-backed and unrecognised Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic also known as Transnistria on August 14, 2017 in Tiraspol, Moldova. Transnistria, a strip of territory between Moldova and Ukraine, sometimes only ten kilometers, is inhabited by some 450,000 and considered an unrecognised breakaway state that is internationally known as part of Moldova. The Dniester river has been largely controlled for some thirty years by an administration which is neither Ukrainian nor Moldovan. (Photo by Pierre Crom/Getty Images)
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