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Tiraspol government building: the steel-rich region tore away from Moldova in the early 1990s (Photo: Wikipedia)

Referendum to test EU diplomacy in Moldova

by Andrew Rettman, Brussels, September 15, 2006, 12:29:16 PM
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The breakaway republic of Transdniestria in Moldova will on Sunday (17 September) vote in a referendum on joining Russia, in a potentially damaging blow to EU diplomacy in the post-Soviet region.

"Do you support the course of independence for the Transdniestrian Moldavian Republic and the subsequent free joining of Transdniestria to the Russian Federation?" the form will ask the 700,000 ethnic-Moldovan people living on the east side of the Dniester river.

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

Tiraspol government building: the steel-rich region tore away from Moldova in the early 1990s (Photo: Wikipedia)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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