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RELATIONS between Moldova and Romania have a fairly long history. It is not entirely correct to say that Moldovans and Romanians are the same people, although some politicians in the Republic of Moldova (RM), including its current president, Maia Sandu, try to present the situation precisely in this light. But detailed analysis leads to the conclusion that the Moldovans are a nation with their own history and culture that are by no means identical to Romanian history and culture. As for the population of Transnistria, it has virtually no relation to Romania. After all, most of the territory of Bessarabia (the historical name of modern Moldova) consisted of lands located between the Black Sea and the Dniester, Prut, and Danube Rivers. Today, this territory is part of the modern Republic of Moldova and southern Ukraine.
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ID:
165637
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IN RECENT YEARS, the territory of the former Soviet Union has been the site of escalating East-West rivalry. On one side there are Euro-Atlantic bodies - the European Union and NATO. On the other there are the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), organizations active on former Soviet territory. This rivalry was made more intense by the crisis of 2013 and 2014 in Ukraine and the reunification of Crimea with Russia. The future nature of international relations in ex-Soviet territory and those in Europe as a whole largely depends on whether former Soviet republics will prioritize relations with the EU or activities in the EAEU format. For Moldova, this is a vital choice to make for historical (and geographical) reasons.
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ID:
177537
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THE CONFLICT between Moldova and Transnistria is nearly 30 years old. It erupted when the Soviet Union was falling apart, and there is no chance of it being resolved any time soon. No plans for its settlement have worked. It is not a unique frozen conflict in the post-Soviet space. There are others similar in nature. The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh and Georgia's conflicts with South Ossetia and Abkhazia broke out practically simultaneously with the Transnistrian conflict and have equally unresolvable problems at their basis. This category of frozen confrontations also includes a comparatively new conflict in southeastern Ukraine, which was provoked in 2014 by a coup in Kiev involving the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovich - the population of the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk refused to recognize the self-established regime in Kiev as a legitimate government and put up armed resistance to it.
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