Romania a pawn between East and West

The Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism has received more than 1,000 US embassy cables from Wikileaks dealing with Romanian politics. According to the documents Romania lies on the disputed divide between the Russian and US spheres of influence, the blog portal Contributors.ro points out: "The official material confirms that since the mid-1990s the great political disputes within Romania have for the most part not been of an economic, social or ideological nature but geopolitical. However you read the US cables it can't be ignored that Romania is increasingly dominated by tensions arising from Russian and US influence, or to be more precise from Nato. ... Whether we like it or not, as long as Russia is strong Romania must defend itself against its pressure and lean towards Central Europe. But this doesn't mean that Romania won't also remain a fertile terrain for a pro-Russian party."

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