The Next Crimea?
Journal: Problems of Post-Communism
Year: 2016

Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea in March 2014 sparked so far unrealized international fears that the pro-Russian separatist republic of Transnistria in Moldova might be the next object of Russian territorial revisionism. This article argues that these fears were predicated on faulty assumptions about Russia’s interests and capacities in Moldova. It traces the development of Russian policy in the country from 1992 to 2015, and argues that Russia has primarily been interested in influence