11 September 2003 Editor’s note: This piece originally appeared in Kishinevsky Obozrevatel’, a Russian-language Moldovan weekly. CHISINAU–To paraphrase an old saying, Moldovans regularly deal with two kinds of problems: natural disaster and government clerks. This year, the rural farming sector–the strongest branch of the country’s economy–was shaken hard by the first. Now it is bracing itself for the impact of […]

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