“For company, Mr. Muntean has his two cats, five dogs, nine turkeys, 15 geese, 42 chickens, about 50 pigeons, 120 ducks and several thousand bees. The other humans have either died, left for larger towns and cities in Moldova, or emigrated to Russia or other parts of Europe. ‘The loneliness kills you,’ Mr. Muntean, 65, said on a recent afternoon.” NYT: Three People Lived in This Village Until Two Were Murdered.