>>BTW, is Moldova in a list of countires now? :) He is not from Russia, but from Moldova (former USSR republic)
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>A reporter from a local newspaper here mentioned in a recent article that Romania was a former USSR republic! You two must’ve gone to the same history class.

Doru,

Romania never was a former USSR republic, however, Moldova was. Currently it's an idependant country afrer USSR broke down. I'm not going to go in deep history (and, BTW, you're right: history and geography are my weakest part of education), but this is I know for sure. There were 15 republics in the former USSR and Moldova was one of them. Anyone from former USSR can support me in this statement.

>I don’t think this is the place to state or debate what Moldova is, or which part of it was part of what, so I’ll stop here.
>There is no lie, only incomplete truth.

I can discuss this issue with my husband, who is much stronger in geography and history, than I'm.

Thanks.