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Another Ex-Russian Terroritory Wants To Rejoin Russia–US Says Moldova Break-a-way Republic Can’t Join Russia (pictures and videos)
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 12:25
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Pro-Russian politicians and activists in Moldova’s breakaway Trans-Dniester region have asked the Russian parliament to draft a law that would allow their territory to join Russia.
The Trans-Dniestrian appeal comes as Moscow moves towards absorbing Crimea into the Russian Federation. Ukraine, the EU and US say that move is illegal.
Russian loyalists dominate Trans-Dniester, with support from Moscow.
The region split from Moldova in a war in 1991-92, as the USSR was collapsing.
Moldova’s President Nicolae Timofti said in a news briefing on Tuesday that any decision by Moscow to accept Trans-Dniester “would be a step in the wrong direction”. MOREHERE
Now, what was that about Texas wanting to secede?