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For years Transnistria has not paid for its natural gas.

The communist state of Transnistria has its own currency, police, army and border guards, although remains unrecognised by sovereign nations.

Since the early 1990s, with the support of Moscow, a nationalist, pro-Russian separatist movement in Transnistria has been trying to break away from Moldova.

So far, Transnistria has refused to join the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement, signed last year between the EU and Moldova.

Since then, Transnistria has followed its own Soviet-style path, leaving the enclave adrift from almost all of the rest of the world and firmly under the wing of the Russians, who maintain a military base here.

"If, by the end of the year, Transnistria has not reoriented toward Europe," thus preserving those duty-exemptions, it "would be a severe blow for textile, metallurgical and other industries from the republic," said Soin.

Handily, Transnistria had long been the headquarters of Russia's 14th Army, so there was no need to build new barracks for them.

Rahim Kanani: During his visit, Vice President Biden said, "On Transnistria, America has supported and will continue to support a settlement -- not any settlement, but a settlement that preserves Moldova's sovereignty and territorial integrity within your internationally recognized borders".

Transnistria, which had a large Russian population, hoped to form a country that could remain a part of the USSR.

Transnistria broke away from Moldova in 1990 because people there thought Moldova was going to become part of Romania, and the citizens of Transnistria apparently had a huge aversion to becoming Romanian.

Apart from more than 1,100 Russian troops based in Transnistria, the separatist movement has its own soldiers who speak Russian and whose uniforms bear insignias in Cyrillic — unlike the rest of Moldova, which has a Latin script and whose citizens speak Romanian.