Lyndon accompanied his Moldovan wife as she voted at the Moldovan embassy in Moscow this weekend. Following reports that there were 700,000 Moldovan expats living in Russia, few of whom planned to vote for the Communists, Lyndon wanted to see for himself what was happening:
I am a bit skeptical of this figure, mainly because it was used in a Channel 1 news report (not the one linked to above, but the one I saw later in the evening) to suggest that the Moldovan government was trying to suppress the vote of Moldovans living in Russia, with the assumption being that they would take a pro-Russian stance and therefore vote against Voronin. This was of course born out by an "exit poll" - scientifically conducted, no doubt, although I saw no pollsters at the voting station asking questions of people exiting - broadcast on Vremia, the results of which supposedly showed that 60% of the two to four thousand voters at the Moscow polling station voted for "opposition groups" and only 2% for Voronin’s party.
As usual, the picture I’ve posted here is Lyndon’s, just one of many from his photoessay.
