As winter approaches, people in Talmaza, a village in the southeast corner of Moldova, Europe’s poorest country, are scrambling to secure fuel to heat their homes.
With the country locked in a natural-gas dispute with Russia, many fear they will be literally left out in the cold.
“Wood is expensive. So is coal. Those young people that emigrated from Moldova did the right thing. We older people should do the same. It’s not worth living here,” one elderly resident in Talmaza recently told RFE/RL’s Moldovan Service.
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