Shaken by Crimea, Moldova sees rebel 'provocations'

CHISINAU (Reuters) - Moldova's pro-Europe prime minister warned of "a series of provocations" from breakaway Russian-speaking Transdniestria, identified by NATO as a possible next target for Russia after it sent troops into Ukraine.

Iurie Leanca told Reuters that Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula "might raise expectations" in Moldova's rebel region, a sliver of land that broke away with the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.