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World Service,3 mins

Moldova’s Trans-Dniester region: the next Crimea?

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Could other former parts of the Soviet Union follow Crimea in joining Russia? A region of Moldova, Trans-Dniester, in effect broke away in the early 1990s, and last month pro-Russians there asked Moscow to draft a law allowing them to join Russia. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister of Moldova, says recent events have strengthened his desire to join the European Union. He was talking to the Âé¶¹Éç's Andrew Hosken, who's had the rare opportunity for a western journalist of being allowed into Transniestra.

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