Moldovan separatists vote on independence, Russia
Ex-Soviet Moldova’s separatist Dnestr region voted in a referendum on Sunday on whether to press forward with their self-styled independence declared 16 years ago and eventually join Russia. There is little doubt voters in the Russian-speaking sliver of land bordering Ukraine will overwhelmingly back their hard-line leaders’ call to underpin their independence in one of the “frozen conflicts” defying resolution in ex-Soviet states. Full Story