Ex-Soviet Moldova is no longer receiving Russian gas or enduring the 'blackmail' imposed by gas giant Gazprom over its difficulties in paying for supplies, the country's energy minister said.
Gazprom had allowed this for 30 years, Parlicov said, to keep the pro-Russian sliver of land from collapsing.
Moldova, one of Europe's poorest countries, has been buffeted by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the presence of pro-Russian separatists on its doorstep. A contingent of 1,500 Russian "peacekeepers" remain in the separatist region 30 years after a brief war pitting it against newly independent Moldova.
The sum of Transdniestria's unpaid bills for Russian gas is estimated by Moldovan officials at several billion dollars.
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