The Moldovan Foreign Ministry summoned for the Russian Ambassador in Chisinau to demand from Russia to stop recruiting locally for the Russian Armed Forces.

The clue to understanding the dispute is that recruiting mostly takes place in a territory not controlled by Moldova, that is, Transnistria. With the de facto secession of the region of Transnistria in 1992, a de facto independent state was established that has until recently economically viable thanks to Russian subsidies in cash and nat...