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> I'm from around that region so I'm quite familiar. Not sufficiently familiar then. "It is estimated that about 250,000 out of 500,000 people living in Trans
by bigdict 4y ago
> I'm from around that region so I'm quite familiar.
Not sufficiently familiar then.
"It is estimated that about 250,000 out of 500,000 people living in Transnistria hold Russian citizenship."
That's as of 2020, "passportization" has continued since then.
https://warsawinstitute.org/russia-hands-passports-diaspora/ https://warsawinstitute.org/russia-hands-passports-diaspora/
- mazurnification 4y agoBut Transnistria has between 360k - 475k ppl (from Wikipedia). Plus everybody want Romanian passport (which is not that hard to get if you are Moldovan) - due to UE free movement ...
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoIf France were to give french passports to a lot of Germans in a particular region of Germany, that region doesn't magically become a French asset/territory.
- bigdict 4y agoTransnistria is literally controlled by Russian armed forces…
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoWhich are there illegally as they occupy the territory of the sovereign nation of Moldova. Case in point, no other UN nation recognizes Transnistria or Transnistrean passports. Transnistrean citizens travel with Moldovan passports.
- bigdict 4y agoYou are missing the point, it's still an asset under Russian control, whether you like it or not.