https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/moldova-protesters-energy-subsidies-president-quit-97321398
Several thousand protesters have rallied in Moldova’s capital 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
Some of the demonstrators who converged on Chisinau called for the resignation of the country's president, chanting “Down with Maia Sandu!”
Sandu on Feb. 13 outlined what she claimed was an alleged plot by Moscow to overthrow the government in order to put the nation “at the disposal of Russia,” and to derail it from its course to one day join the European Union.
Around the same time, Moldova’s government asked the country’s Constitutional Court to declare the Shor Party illegal. The country's anti-corruption prosecutors’ office alleged the protests were partly financed with Russian money.
The U.S. says Shor worked with “corrupt oligarchs and Moscow-based entities to create political unrest in Moldova” and to undermine the country’s bid to join the EU.