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Mar 26, 2024 · Moldova is sandwiched between Ukraine to the east and Romania to the west. Along Moldova’s eastern edge runs the breakaway region of Transnistria. Moldova does not share a border with Russia. Before 2014, Russia could access Transnistria by transiting Ukraine or via Moldova’s port on the River Danube.
Most of Moldovan territory was a part of the Principality of Moldavia from the 14th century until 1812, when it was ceded to the Russian Empire by the Ottoman Empire (to which Moldavia was a vassal state) and became known as Bessarabia.
Feb 26, 2023 · London CNN — Tensions are mounting in Moldova, a small country on Ukraine’s southwestern border, where Russia has been accused of laying the groundwork for a coup that could drag the nation into...
Feb 29, 2024 · February 29, 2024 at 11:03 AM PST. Listen. 5:32. In early 2022, a series of unexplained explosions in Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria raised fears that Russian President Vladimir...
Feb 28, 2024 · Transnistria tensions: Will Russia try to annex Moldova’s breakaway region? Pro-Russian rebels hint at a referendum, a move Moldova has dismissed as meaningless propaganda.
The Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1782, Italian map by G. Pittori, since the geographer Giovanni Antonio Rizzi Zannoni The siege and capture of Iași in 1788 by the Russian Army During the late 17th century, Moldavia became the target of the Russian Empire 's southwards expansion, inaugurated by Peter the Great with the Russo ...
In 1775, the Habsburg monarchy annexed ca 11% of the territory of Moldavia, which became known as Bukovina. By the Treaty of Bucharest following the Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812), Russia had annexed further 50% of its territory, which became known as Bessarabia .
