WIRE — Residents of Transnistria, a breakaway republic within Moldova's internationally recognized borders, have filed more than 60,000 applications for Russian citizenship under a simplified procedure over the past three months, Vadim Krasnoselsky, the head of the self-proclaimed republic, told the pro-Kremlin outlet Izvestia.

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