Balkan Trafik! Festival shines spotlight on Moldova

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For the past 20 years, the Balkan Trafik! Festival, held every April in Brussels, highlights cultures and music from across the Balkans through workshops, exhibitions, food and wine.

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00:00 Moldova, a former Soviet republic wedged between Ukraine and Romania. A territory on the edge

00:08 of Europe that includes the autonomous pro-Russian territories of Transnistria and Gagauzia.

00:18 When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a Russian street artist decided to repaint

00:23 an old abandoned Soviet hotel in the center of the Moldovan capital.

00:29 This country is pretty divided and we have a lot of different points of view. Somebody

00:34 is pro-European, pro-Romanian, somebody is for sovereignty and its own identity, somebody

00:41 is pro-Russian. This wall and this building is like a social dialogue between different

00:48 groups trying to express themselves and their ideas.

00:53 The group Kolai Seslere is one of the most famous and followed in Gagauzia.

01:01 The Balkan Trafik festival held every April in Brussels brings together all these groups

01:07 who are little known outside their own borders.

01:16 The Balkan Trafik is a way to bring together all these minorities and to bring them together

01:23 and to show them the diversity of the region.

01:30 Here we are talking about Gagauzia, a minority of Moldova.

01:35 The festival is also about discovering a region through its culture, its minorities and its diversity.

01:43 The group Kolai Seslere played for the Miss Gagauzia election.

01:48 They will also play in Brussels with dozens of other groups and artists for Balkan Trafik

01:53 from April 25 to April 27.

01:56 [ Applause ]

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