Moldova's Breakaway Transdniester Urges Moscow To Recognize Independence

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Source: Radio Free Europe

Lawmakers in Moldova's breakaway region of Transdniester have urged Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russia's parliament, and the UN and the OSCE to recognize the region's independence.

In the official address, adopted by the members of Transdniester's Supreme Council on April 16, the lawmakers said that their request was based on the results of the referendum held in the separatist region in September 2006.

The official results of the referendum said that 97 percent of the population in Transdniester had voted for the region's independence from Moldova and the right to join the Russian Federation.

Transdniester has ruled itself since breaking away from Moldova in a brief war in 1992.

Read more: http://www.rferl.org/content/moldovas-breakaway-transdniester-urge-moscow-to-recognize-independence/25351540.html

[bemildred]

1. It is a can of worms that's been opened. nt

[Igel]

3. With the same magic number. n/t

[7962]

2. We're gonna end up with 600 new countries that average the size of Rhode Island. nt

[Catherina]

4. The Wolfowitz Doctrine backfiring spectacularly

Transdniester declared independence in 1990.

In 2006, Transdniester held a referendum to secede from Ukraine and join Russia and reasserted its demand for independence.

Bad timing for the neolibs and neocons in DC to have done this. Their IMF Austerity package to slave away for the EU isn't enticing enough to change people's minds about which country they want to be linked with.

Moldova’s Breakaway Region Asks Putin to Recognize Sovereignty
By Olga Tanas and Andra Timu April 16, 2014

Moldova’s breakaway pro-Russian region of Transnistria has appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to recognize its independence after Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

The appeal by the Parliament of Transnistria, city and district council members and community associations “express the aspirations of the people of Transnistria” and is based on the results of referendums held in 1991, 1995 and 2006, the parliament of the unrecognized state said on its website.

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“Transnistria is a Russian-language land, more than 90 percent of Transnistrians speak and think in Russian,” the region’s parliament said in its statement.

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http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-04-16/moldova-s-breakaway-region-asks-putin-to-recognize-sovereignty

[bemildred]

5. LOL. The Wolfowitz Doctrine. nt

[pampango]

6. Transdniester is a part of Moldova not Ukraine. It has been seeking independence from Moldova

since 1990.

After the dissolution of the USSR, tensions between the newly created Moldova and the de facto sovereign state of Pridnestrovia (which unlike the rest of Moldova had not wanted to separate from the Soviet Union), escalated into a military conflict that started in March 1992 and was concluded by a ceasefire in July 1992. As part of that agreement, a three-party (Russia, Moldova, Transnistria) Joint Control Commission supervises the security arrangements in the demilitarized zone, comprising twenty localities on both sides of the river. Although the ceasefire has held, the territory's political status remains unresolved: Transnistria is an unrecognized but independent presidential republic with its own government, parliament, military, police, postal system, and currency. Its authorities have adopted a constitution, flag, national anthem, and coat of arms.

Because of the Russian military contingent present in Transnistria, the European Court of Human Rights considers Transnistria "under the effective authority or at least decisive influence of Russia". Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia are post-Soviet "frozen conflict" zones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria

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8. Technically, since before independent Moldova existed.

Transdneister (or Pridnestrovie, as it would be called if it were actually recognized) declared its independence in 1990 while the entire region was still part of the USSR. Gorbechev voided the declaration, but the people living there didn't listen and have been de facto independent ever since.

Moldova declared itself independent from the USSR in 1991, and claimed Transdneister as part of its territory. This led to a war in 1992 that ended in a stalemate. Both sides eventually asked for Russian peacekeepers to end the conflict, and the Russian have kept peacekeeping forces in the area ever since.

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7. "Secede from Ukraine"?

Oh please, tell me more.

[itsrobert]

10. Secede from Uranus

LOL