Most countries would call an arrangemnet like this the deal of the century, yet the three (OK: 2.5) parties involved kept it quite... quiet! Ukraine gaves a piece of land on the Danube to Moldova-the-landlocked (a Soviet arrangement after WWII), for a sliver of Moldovan land which allowed Rumania to gain direct road traffic to Odessa and points north. Azerbaijan through in it some oil/blood money later...
Gee, Russia always dreamt of a 'deal' like this'...
Alin Sebastian
The above was first published at Rumanian minorities newsgroup, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rumanian_minorities/, in an
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