Moldova’s President Vladimir Voronin was turned away on Monday from the country’s separatist region on the orders of self-styled president of Transdniestria, Igor Smirnov. Mr. Smirnov’s fiefdom within Moldova’s internationally recognized borders is protected by Russian ‘peacekeepers’.
You can read the story in English in Kyiv Post. I cannot tell if Mr Smirnov was just simply [...]

The opposition Liberal Party has organized a demonstration against Russian troops in Moldova, which was crushed by the police. A break-away region ‘invited’ more Russian troops into the small Eastern European country. Familiar story?
Moldova (still on the map in the right hand corner) is a former Soviet republic between the European Union and Ukraine. Its [...]