The opposition has harshly criticized new language rules passed by Moldovan President Maia Sandu’s pro-EU PAS party Moldovan President Maia Sandu’s pro-EU PAS party has pushed through new procedural rules that severely restrict the use of the Russian language in parliament. The ex-Soviet republic of around 2.5 million people sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine has charted an increasingly anti-Russian course since Sandu came to power in 2020. Under the new regulations adopted on Thursday,