And, in other surreal news...
Mar. 7th, 2005 03:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
randomnesshttp://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=558154
"Pro-Western Communists Win Moldova Vote"
"Sunday's elections have raised tensions with Russia, which maintains peacekeepers in a separatist Slavic enclave in Moldova, and dealt another blow to Moscow's waning influence in the former Soviet republics after the election of pro-Western leaders in Georgia and Ukraine last year."
Without getting into the details, this is the kind of headline you'd write into an '80s SF story for weird effect.
"Pro-Western Communists Win Moldova Vote"
"Sunday's elections have raised tensions with Russia, which maintains peacekeepers in a separatist Slavic enclave in Moldova, and dealt another blow to Moscow's waning influence in the former Soviet republics after the election of pro-Western leaders in Georgia and Ukraine last year."
Without getting into the details, this is the kind of headline you'd write into an '80s SF story for weird effect.