Will life imitate art in Moldova?

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Pro-Moscow figure Igor Dodon claims Moldova presidency (BBC News)

When I saw this, I thought immediately of Rimsky-Korsakov's 1907 opera The Golden Cockerel (Le coq d'or) in which Tsar Dodon is pecked to death by the eponymous cockerel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Cockerel

 

[S.G. Janssens]

I like the way you put this. As usual, my thoughts were much more prosaic.