Perhaps you think that because the president's name is Vladimir Voronin, but in fact he is of native Moldovan origins, rather than Russian. His name is Russified but he is not an ethnic-Russian. It might be more correct to describe the elite as "pro-Russian", with the Slavic element mostly living in Transnistria.

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Not any more.

Moldovia is pretty much identical to Bessarabia, a province of the Kingdom of Romania (formerly part of the Russian empire) which Stalin incorporated into the Soviet Union.

Slavs, mostly Ukrainian and Russian, are the majority of the population in Transnistria.

Moldavia is essentially Romanian: about 75% of the population is ethnic Romanian; that proportion is higher if Transnistria is excluded.

The problems in Moldavia seem to stem mainly from an inter-generational clash between older people who value the certainty of the current system, and younger people who want the country to modernise, re-unite with Romania and join the EU.

At the moment people are biased because of false propaganda on the national TV and papers the always tend to show footage from the WW2 showing disaster that it has caused, basically brainwashing like in the old soviet days, taking in consideration the head of the state was a former general of interior ministry and secret service forces - to normal people a moldovan branch of KGB.

Wrong! it uses latin alphabet, Soviet propaganda again created a made up language to distort peoples believes that they originate from romanian descent.

To be honest I don't want to draw parallels but Northern Ireland annexation by the Brits in some ways seems similar, I heard a lot folks south of border talking about that when generation of catholics prevails over the one unionists they might be unification with Ireland ? therefore if younger generation prevails over the older one that was educated and brainwashed for so many years in soviet style then there might a referendum and unification providing the favorable political parties come to power.

Absolutely! thats why EU & US keeping it mum at the moment and Russia is blaring from all directions that it is a sponsored "coup d'etat", unfortunately for Moldovan younger people (I won't vouch for older generation as they still leave in a fantasy land called USSR in their minds anyway) this is russia's sphere of influence as they call it "our ally" ("ally" my arse) lets not forget that we talking eastern EU & NATO Border i think its pretty strategic even in NATO's point of view, this is another russian enclave like the one sandwiched between poland and latvia. Its very simple the one up north has easy access to northern part of EU, the one in the south to southern part of EU because lets be honest they have already lost Bulgaria and in the near future Serbia will be gone too from their sphere of influence.

Russia doesn't sleep to which I can say about NATO is in deep sleep at the moment.

there's no significant difference in the two countries. Since around the time of the breakup of the USSR, Moldovan is now also in the Latin alphabet. No real difference in the language.

The vast majority of the Moldovans do not want reunification with Romania. All they want is a democatic country free of corruption.

But they're stuck between the extremists on either side who either want to reunite with Romania or kiss Russian ass. And of course both sides of the centre are as corrupt as hell

But it did use the Cyrillic alphabet, no? I know the languages are the same and I know it was just a Soviet ploy to create a false identity.

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Politics is like numbers - the figures on the right are less significant.

On the Russian offer to partition Moldova with Romania:

Polls on reunification in Romania and Moldova:

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It did you are right, but again it was enforced upon, so russian speaking population could easily learn local language. Think english with cyrillic alphabet it sounds crazy doesn't it ?