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    Moldova 

    (/mɒlˈdoʊvə/ ( listen), sometimes UK: /ˈmɒldəvə/; Romanian pronunciation: [molˈdova]),[12][13]


    [14]
     officially the Republic of Moldova (Romanian: Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country
    in Eastern Europe.[15] It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and
    south.[16] The capital city is Chișinău.
    Most of Moldovan territory was a part of the Principality of Moldavia from the 14th century until
    1812, when it was ceded to the Russian Empire by the Ottoman Empire (to which Moldavia was
    a vassal state) and became known as Bessarabia. In 1856, southern Bessarabia was returned to
    Moldavia, which three years later united with Wallachia to form Romania, but Russian rule was
    restored over the whole of the region in 1878. During the 1917 Russian Revolution, Bessarabia
    briefly became an autonomous state within the Russian Republic, known as the Moldavian
    Democratic Republic. In February 1918, the Moldavian Democratic Republic declared
    independence and then integrated into Romania later that year following a vote of its assembly.
    The decision was disputed by Soviet Russia, which in 1924 established, within the Ukrainian
    SSR, a Moldavian autonomous republic (MASSR) on partially Moldovan-inhabited territories to
    the east of Bessarabia.
    In 1940, as a consequence of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Romania was compelled to cede
    Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union, leading to the creation of the Moldavian
    Soviet Socialist Republic (Moldavian SSR), which included the greater part of Bessarabia and
    the westernmost strip of the former MASSR (east of the Dniester River). On 27 August 1991, as
    the dissolution of the Soviet Union was underway, the Moldavian SSR declared
    independence and took the name Moldova.[17] The constitution of Moldova was adopted in 1994.
    The strip of the Moldovan territory on the east bank of the Dniester has been under the de
    facto control of the breakaway government of Transnistria since 1990.
    Due to a decrease in industrial and agricultural output following the dissolution of the Soviet
    Union, the service sector has grown to dominate Moldova's economy and is over 60% of the
    nation's GDP. It is the second poorest country in Europe by GDP per capita.[18] Although Moldova
    has a relatively high Human Development Index, it is the lowest in the continent, ranking 90th in
    the world.
    Moldova is a parliamentary republic with a president as head of state and a prime
    minister as head of government. It is a member state of the United Nations, the Council of
    Europe, the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
    Europe (OSCE), the GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development,
    the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and the Organization of the Black Sea
    Economic Cooperation (BSEC).

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