MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Monday threw its weight behind Moldova's outgoing President Vladimir Voronin who will oversee an early parliamentary election next month and said it could lend $500 million to the crisis-hit ex-Soviet nation.
Voronin, in office since 2001 and who cannot run for a third term, dissolved parliament last week and called an early election for July 29 after deputies twice failed to elect a new president, lacking just one vote to approve his candidate.
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