TRANSNISTRIA, the Country That Doesn’t Exist, Just Asked for RUSSIA’S Protection

Moldova is one of the 15 former republics of the Soviet Union. However, in the early 1990 s, this Union of Soviet Republics entered into a crisis that would lead to its disappearance. Thus, Moldova regained its independence. Declared Moldovan as its only official language and abandoned the Cyrillic alphabet, used by the Russian language and adopted the Latin alphabet. The problem was that Moldova, was inhabited not only by Moldovans, but also by Russians who had settled in the east of the country two centuries ago. This territory in the east of Moldova, inhabited mostly by Russians, is known as Transnistria. And, while Moldova was rebuilding its independence and moving away from its Soviet past, in Transnistria, they refused to abandon Mother Russia, so this region declared its independence from Moldova in 1990, wrote its own constitution and its own anthem. In response, Moldova tried to suppress Transnistria's separatist sentiments. This ended in a war that lasted two years. Russia's military support was definitive for Transnistria, a region that since 1992, has had Russian troops installed there and depends on Russian economic aid to survive. So since 1992, Transnistria functions as an independent state with its own currency, army and delimited territory, but it is not recognized by the international community. It does not even appear on maps, let alone participate in the Olympic Games. In fact, not a single UN country recognizes its independence. Most recognize it as part of Moldova. Although Russia does not officially recognize Transnistria as an independent country either, it does maintain close ties with the region. Of the 500,000 people living in Transnistria, more than half are Russians, some 1,500 Russian soldiers remain there. And the government is run by pro-Russian separatists. For three decades, the situation remained relatively stable. However, everything seems to be about to change because on February 28, 2024, the Transnistrian government, asked Russia for help to protect the region against threats from Moldova. So the questions are: why did Transnistria ask for Russia's protection? Why might all this be a plan to invade Moldova? And how vulnerable is Moldova, to a possible Russian invasion?
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