1.  Hundreds of stores, restaurants and gas stations closed in a panic Tuesday after the Moldovan currency lost roughly half its value in one day.

2.  In a major concession, Trans-Dniester officials agreed to introduce the Moldovan currency, the leu, into circulation.

3.  The Moldovan currency, the leu, has depreciated sharply in the past two months.

4.  He also stressed the stability of the Moldovan currency, the leu, and said reforms were now irreversible across the economy.

5.  Fiercely independent despite its economic poverty, Transdnestr refuses to recognise Moldovan currency and has its own currency -- the old Russian rouble.