by Dan lonescu and Peter Rutland SINCE THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET Union in 1991, the Republic of Moldova has been striving to establish its identity as an independent, sovereign state. That process has been complicated by the presence within Moldova of two autonomy-seeking regions: the self-proclaimed “Dniester Moldovan Republic,” with its Russian and Russian-speaking minorities; and the ethnically Turkish […]

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