AAL,
As I understand it, it was the Bulgarian CAA that pulled their own countries AN-12 European permissions, not the EU authorities.
I've been told of that deal - "either you kick out all your An-12s, or you reveal yourself in the blacklist". It's been good deal, huh? Apparently, Moldava got just the same.
But what disturbs me is wether Soviet Aircraft' Operators would be available or rather willing to keep up the av.safety standarts when they finnaly will have been ousted to the Dark Continent? Or will we likely be witnesses of another bloody surge of accidents with Antonovs and Ilyushins overthere?