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Moscow has been accused of breaking laws in a separatist region of Moldova ahead of this week’s presidential election.
A senior official in ex-Soviet Moldova said Russia was illegally printing ballot papers in the breakaway region of Transdniestria.
Moldova’s pro-European authorities have already summoned the Russian ambassador to complain about a decision to open six polling stations in the pro-Russian enclave, instead of a single polling station at the Russian embassy in Chisinau.
The ambassador rejected the complaint as unfounded, telling reporters Russia was simply enabling some 250,000 Russian nationals in Moldova to vote, many of them in the separatist region.
Elsewhere, Ukrainestruck Russian oil refineries in a second day of heavy drone attacks on Wednesday, causing a fire at Rosneft’s …