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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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