The Gagauz are a Turkic speaking but Orthodox Christian people mainly living near the Ukrainian border in Moldova. Enjoying a degree of autonomy within Moldova: their fear has been that Moldova would be subsumed within the Romanian state; their desire that they could find a home within the Russian Federation. The current events in Ukraine make this wish a possibility. If the Russians do absorb the Black Sea coast up to Moldova then the Gagauz and Bulgarian speaking borderlands could easily end up in Russia; with Moldova itself uniting with Romania.
Anyway, here is a popular Gagauz song.
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