US Sanctions Pro-Russia Governor of Moldova's Gagauzia Region

The United States imposed sanctions on the pro-Russia governor of Moldova's Gagauzia region on Wednesday

Evgenia Gutul is a Kremlin ally who was elected last year to head the autonomous southern

Gutul faces criminal allegations at home of channelling funds from Russia to finance the now-banned Shor Party set up by Ilan Shor

The sanctions announced on the website of the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets

"The United States announced sanctions against (Gutul) as an active facilitator of fugitive convicted oligarch Ilan Shor and his Shor Party

their Kremlin-backed illegal political interference efforts," the U.S. embassy in Chisinau said in a statement.

we will continue to take decisive action to counter corruption and threats to national security".

Moldova, one of Europe's poorest countries, has a Romanian-speaking majority and a large Russian-speaking minority,

Another region of Moldova, mainly Russian-speaking Transdnistria, broke from Chisinau's control after a brief war in the early 1990s

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