Win elections in Gagauzia (southern Moldova) independent of the Deputy Irina Vlah, advocating for a rapprochement with Russia, became an unpleasant surprise for Chisinau and increases the likelihood of bringing to the deterioration of relations between the centre and the region, said the head of the Department of Transnistria and Moldova Institute of CIS Sergey Lavrenov. Election of the head of the Gagauz autonomy were held on Sunday. The new head of the region has become Irina Vlah, she scored 51, 01% of the vote. Gagauzia is traditionally advocated a rapprochement with Russia, while the official Chisinau proclaimed the course of European integration. "Victory in the first round, Irina Vlah, who represented the Russian vector, was an unpleasant surprise for Chisinau," said the specialist Last news on the first day of the week. He said that except Vlach in the election was attended by nine candidates in this degree or another, were aimed at harmonizing policies of Gagauzia with the official policy of Chisinau." Irina Vlah did not hide in her program that she is interested in the development, most importantly, economic relations with the Customs Union, that is, with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, attracting investments to the region in order to lengthen the number of jobs, and among them, perhaps, to intensify agricultural production, textile industry and to build, maybe a new industrial production, " said Lavrenov. the expert believes that " as relations between Comrat and Chisinau were strained