European leaders are growing concerned as a series of votes on the region’s eastern periphery test a decades-long march toward Western integration and Vladimir Putin’s longstanding attempt to halt it.
Election contests over the last month in Moldova, Georgia — and even European Union member state Bulgaria — have showcased Russia’s effort to reverse the westward tide. In addition to the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine, Putin’s hybrid campaign to exploit divisions in countries once in the Soviet orbit has been making gains.
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