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When they turned to face Moldova, however, the two silver-haired Presidents were less conciliatory. Russians and Ukrainians are trying to secede from the former republic, where ethnic Romanians predominate, moves to rejoin Romania. Fighting intensified in Bendery, a Slav enclave on the west bank of the Dniester River, as former Soviet army units joined in combat against Moldovans...
...said he would support the Russian and Ukrainian secessionists if Moldova returned to Romania. Two days later, at a regional economic conference in Istanbul, Yeltsin and Moldovan President Mircea Snegur announced a cease-fire. Snegur said Moldova's parliament would examine ways to grant home rule to the Trans-Dniester region, where Russian and Ukrainian separatists are concentrated...
...convoluted plot twists and bravura posturing might seem reminiscent of a comic opera. Certainly the so-called Dniester Republic (pop. 600,000) is among the miniest of ministates, proclaimed by ethnic Russians and Ukrainians seceding from a secession. Its citizens refused to stay in the new nation of Moldova (pop. 4.4 million), a former Soviet republic that broke away from Moscow last August, because the majority ethnic Romanians were making noises about uniting with their brethren across the border...
...troops weren't enough to prevent bloodshed in the Dniester River valley, a region east of the Moldavian capital of Kishinev where ethnic Russians have also proclaimed their independence from the republic. Skirmishes between Moldavians and Russians outside the town of Dubossary reportedly left at least six dead and 30 wounded...
...republic. When the Gagauz went ahead with elections for a separate parliament, the Moldavian government declared a state of emergency, cut telephone lines and set up blockades to seal off the minority region. After Moldavian and Gagauz leaders began negotiations to avert violence last week, reports that the Dniester republic planned to move up their own parliamentary elections incited the bloodshed outside Dubossary...