else may be more significant

Something else may be more significant, at least as far as the Kremlin is concerned. A ban on the MOC would not so much lead to the formation of a Moldovan national Orthodox church as to a radical expansion in Moldova of the Bessarabian Metropolitanate, which is subordinate to Bucharest. That would add to the support of those in Moldova who have sought to reunite with Romania, for cultural, linguistic, or historical reasons. This would also represent a means of entering the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty ufabet