Who would even want to become part of Russia except for the idiots? Offering Russian citizenship isn’t even much an incentive nowadays, nor will it be in the future. The days of Russia as major global player is finished.
Sufficiently desperate people can be found.
So, if you are like me, you scratched your head going, “Where?”
Transnistria, officially known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR) and locally as Pridnestrovie,[d] is a landlocked breakaway state internationally recognised as part of Moldova.
The government of Moldova very recently took steps to eject the breakaway Russian-backed Transnistrian govt from the country in order to try and fortify the country against a possible Russian aggressive move.
I’m sure this is entirely coincidental and unrelated. /s
The people who actually apply for Russian citizenship basically deport themselves for free once the puppet government and the Sheriff’s oligarch owner are thrown out. It’ll be difficult if there’s going to be a law that states that Transnistrian citizens will be converted to proper Moldovan citizens but those who are just Russians can be ordered to leave.
Meh, there are about 1000 m*scovite soldiers there and that’s about it, everyone else is mostly old people and people with 3+ passports. But if they are going to attack - good for them finally that fucked up appendix will be destroyed. Both Moldova and Ukraine will win from dissolution of this ‘state’.
The President of the Republic of Moldova, Maia Sandu, reacted harshly after Russian leader Vladimir Putin signed a decree simplifying granting Russian citizenship to residents of the Transnistrian region. The head of state said the measure could be aimed at recruiting people for Russia’s war against Ukraine.
“They probably need more people to send to the war in Ukraine,” Maia Sandu said on Saturday at a security conference in Tallinn …
According to Maia Sandu, the Kremlin’s decision also represents a method of pressure on the Republic of Moldova in the context of Chisinau’s efforts to reintegration of the Transnistrian region, controlled by pro-Russian separatist authorities and where Russian military personnel have been stationed since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
