apparently still in flux??? 21.11.2000 00:00 MSK
Ukrainian-Moldovan border to split village in half

UKRAINE, ODESSA. On November 21, residents in the village of Palanka
in Moldova, located near the Odessa-Reni highway, sent a written
appeal to the parliaments of Ukraine and Moldova in which they
protested the decision to erect a border check point and wire fence
in the village.
The issue of establishing border facilities there was discussed at a
November meeting between parliamentary delegations of the two
countries. During the discussions, the Moldovan party requested that
Ukraine give up some territory within the settlement of Bessarabka
and near the construction site of the oil pipeline terminal on the
Danube. The territory in question was part of Ukraine in 1939 and
1940.Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) agreed to
make those concessions provided Moldova give up to Ukraine a seven-
kilometer stretch of the Odessa-Reni highway and part of the village
of Palanka, through which a demarcation line is proposed.The meeting
also addressed the issue of Moldovan property on the territory of
the Odessa, Nikolaev and some other regions in Ukraine. The
Ukrainian parliamentary delegation is apparently insisting that all
100 sanatoriums, rest houses and hotels that during Soviet times
were under the control of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic,
and later were passed into Moldovan jurisdiction, should be
surrendered to Ukraine.