"Moldova is in a very difficult region at a very difficult time," Foreign Minister Nicu Popescu tells DW´s Tim Sebastian.
Bomb hoaxes, cyberattacks, and hybrid warfare have been unleashed against the country since Russia´s war began in Ukraine.
The small former Soviet republic´s pro-European government has reportedly been the target of Kremlin’s destabilization attempts in recent months.
But Popescu says not even pro-Moscow political parties want "Russian tanks to approach our border" or to live in a dictatorship or war zone.
What plots have been uncovered? Can the country join the European Union or NATO?
What about the Russian troops in the separatist Transnistria region?

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00:00 Intro
01:01 World´s most dangerous tightrope act?
01:08 All of Europe is fragile because of war in Ukraine
01:20 Moldova is in a very difficult region at a very difficult time
01:28 Ukraine society, political system, Ukrainian Army is able to resist, fight back and liberate areas
02:10 Threat of Russian hybrid warfare, bomb hoaxes, cyber attacks, incitements of violence, blackouts, refugges
02:50 We don´t face military risk today because Ukraine is resisting
03:00 Moldovan Minister of Internal Affairs Ana Revenco on volatility & Russia´s next target
03:25 United in our desire to keep peace
03:30 You don´t have people in Moldova arguind for Russian tanks to approach our border
03:40 We have a very normal democratic society
04:00 Even pro-Moscow parties want to live a country that is peaceful & democratic with freedom to protest, they don´t want to live in a dictatorship or war zone
04:26 President Maia Sandu on Russian plots to topple government in Chişinău & President Zelenskyy
04:40 We managed to derail more than one attempt to destablize Moldova
05:10 Intelligence reports of subversive activities to cause violent change to the constitutional order
05:48 Serbians blocked from entry into Moldova
06:15 Prosecutors, spies & threat from the Kremlin
06:40 Cooperation & informaton sharing with Molodva
07:00 Extent of alleged Russian plot to overthrow pro-European government exposed in February 2023
07:14 Oligarchs and fugitives
07:45 Transnistria separatists & Russian military presence
08:12 Reintegration through dialogue, diplomacy & negotiations
09:00 Both sides of the River Dnister/Nistru do not want to live in a war zone
09:35 FSB agents fomenting violence at protests
11:38 European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) on Kremlin threats
12:40 Full-scale insurrection before parliamentary & presidential elections?
13:25 Washington Post on Russian funded influence network among Molodovan politicians & EU orientation
13:48 We´ve had politicians who stole hundreds of millions of dollars from population & Russian cash
14:00 Attempts to impose autocratic rule, to derail Moldova path to EU membership, Igor Dodon, oligarchs, Vladimir Plahotniuc
15:25 Coup attempt, former Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita & Dorin Recean
17:05 Inflation, recession & winter gas reserves, electricity & heating, Magenta polling
19:05 NATO relationship & neutrality, US, Romania, France, Germany, European Union
20:20 Defense Minister Anatoli Nosatii & air defense
21:15 The constitutional provison of neutrality is not enough to ensure our security
22:13 Romanian President Klaus Iohannis pledge
22:50 Full and complete victory for Ukraine?
23:10 Our hope is that Ukraine will liberate it s territories and our continent
24:00 Stuck in stablemate, International law, West, US, Canada, Europe

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