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    <text>The Moldovan foreign affairs ministry expels three Russian diplomats and declares them &quot;persona non grata&quot; after accusing the Russian embassy in Chișinău of helping a Moldovan pro-Russia parliament member escape to Transnistria. </text>
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    <text>As announced, Russia's Gazprom halts its gas supplies both to Moldova and the self-proclaimed Transnistrian Republic alleging non-compliance with payment obligations. </text>
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    <text>Moldova orders the expulsion of 22 Russian diplomats by August 15. Several days earlier, a journalist investigation alleged that Russia installed satellite dishes and antennae on its embassy rooftop that could be used for spying. </text>
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      <text>Russian President Vladimir Putin revokes a 2012 foreign policy decree which respects Moldova's sovereignty in resolving the political status of the breakaway Transnistria region. </text>
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    <text>Russian President Vladimir Putin revokes a 2012 foreign policy decree which underpinned Moldova's sovereignty in resolving the political status of the breakaway Transnistria region. </text>
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      <text>Russian Major general Rustam Minnekayev says the goal of the military operation is now to seize territory in Southern Ukraine to create a land corridor from Crimea to Ukraine's border with Transnistria, a pro-Russian unrecognized breakaway state internationally recognized as part of Moldova. </text>
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      <text>Russian Major general Rustam Minnekayev says the goal of the military operation is now the permanent occupation of Southern Ukraine, creating a land corridor from Crimea to Transnistria, and threatening to expand the war to Moldova. </text>
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    <text>Russian Major general Rustam Minnekayev says that the goal of the military operation is now to seize territory in Southern Ukraine in order to create a land corridor from Crimea to Ukraine's border with Transnistria, a pro-Russian unrecognized breakaway state that is internationally recognized as part of Moldova. </text>
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  <text>The Moldovan foreign affairs ministry expels three Russian diplomats and declares them &quot;personae non gratae&quot; after accusing the Russian embassy in Chișinău of helping Alexandr Nesterovschi, a pro-Russia politician convicted of corruption, escape to Transnistria. </text>
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