Summary
The exception, the sliver of land on the left bank of the Dniester, had been part of the Russian Empire since 1792, and when Moldova became an independent state in 1991, it was this area, backed by Russian arms, that established itself as the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic. President Traian Basescu's April 14 call to facilitate mass distribution of Romanian passports to Moldovan citizens plays right into the hands of Romania's opponents.
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Question of Power
tHE VIOLENT DISTURBANCES ON APRIL 7 IN Moldova's capital, Chisinau, have shattered the complacency. Claims that electoral rolls were inflated by four-hundred thousand might themselves be overstated. But conditions needed to bemore scrupulous th...
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