Declaration of Independence (Transnistria)

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By signing its Declaration of Independence on September 2, 1990, Transnistria withdrew from the Moldavian SSR, a republic inside the Soviet Union. The declaration came after a legal referendum and in accordanance with the laws prevailing on its territory at the time, including the 1990 USSR Law on Secession[1].

As is the norm with unilateral declarations of independence, the authorities of the metropolitan state declared this declaration to be without legal force. This subsequently gave rise to the disputed status of Transnistria.