<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria" id="mwAQI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Transnistria">Transnistria</a> is unilaterally proclaimed a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" id="mwAQM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a> republic; the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidium_of_the_Supreme_Soviet" id="mwAQQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Presidium of the Supreme Soviet">Soviet president</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" id="mwAQU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mikhail Gorbachev">Mikhail Gorbachev</a> declares the decision null and void.