Russian pipeline gas has stopped flowing to Europe through Ukraine as of the New Year, marking the end of a decades-long arrangement.

Moldova is the main victim of the move, with its breakaway region of Transnistria suffering an energy crisis. And though EU is not at risk of an energy shortage, it might face higher gas prices. 

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Moldova’s recent EU referendum and presidential election have drawn attention to Gagauzia, a semi-autonomous region in southern Moldova where opposition to European Union integration and President Maia Sandu's re-election was the strongest in the country.

The country’s Oct. 20 referendum on pursuing EU membership passed by a narrow margin of 0.35%.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulated Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on Monday who claimed victory in an election that sealed a seventh term in workplace. Main results revealed the 70-year-old autocrat winning more than 86% of the vote, drawing condemnation in the West.The Belarusian leader-- w
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The European Union on Monday agreed to extend its sanctions versus Russia over the war in Ukraine, after Hungary accepted the relocation following weeks of stalling. EU foreign ministers simply consented to extend again the sanctions on Russia. This will continue to deny Moscow of revenues to finance its war, the bloc's foreign affairs chief Kaja
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A Russian soldier was found dead in Armenia's second-largest city of Gyumri where Russia has a military base, local media reported Sunday.

Police and investigators found the body of 23-year-old Russian citizen Alexei Yampolsky hanging from an electric cable in an apartment on Saturday, according to the Shamshyan.com news website.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Mondaypraised Soviet soldiers for ending the overall evil of Auschwitz, 80 years after the Red Army freed the Nazi death camp.Auschwitz, the largest Nazi extermination camp, has actually ended up being a symbol of the Holocaust, during which Nazi Germany killed 6 million European Jews. One million Jews perished at
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