ARKADY BARBAROSHIE

Many Communists realize that they will not be in the saddle even if early elections are held. The Communists’ approval rating falls and they have lost their administrative resource.

ARKADY BARBAROSHIE

The CIS summit was held in Chisinau on October 9, 2009. However, the leaders of the Moldovan ruling “Alliance for European Integration” have not taken a clear stand on the CIS.

VLAD LUPAN

The relations with Russia are of great importance to Moldova. The new government’s program has the foreign-policy priorities including the strategic partnership with Russia.

SVYATOSLAV POLKHOV

Russia’s attempt to make the parties sign the “Kozak memorandum” again was strongly opposed by the West. Asif Chaudhry, the U.S. ambassador to Moldova, stated on 24 November that it made no sense to return to that document.

VLADIMIR YASTREBCHAK

The goal of Transnistrian leader Igor Smirnov’s visit to Moscow was to continue the work with the Russian authorities that we had been carrying out for the whole period of the development of Transnistria and our relations with Russia.

SVYATOSLAV POLKHOV

On April 11, the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan Republic’s city of Bendery hosted a meeting of Moldova’s President Vladimir Voronin and Transnistria’s leader Igor Smirnov.

MICHAEL AVERKO

The Serb-proposed settlement for Kosovo serves as a reasonable  option. If implemented in the former Moldavian SSR instance, it would let Pridnestrovie manage its own affairs, while remaining formally linked to Moldova; in a way that involves some interaction between the two. 

OAZU NANTOI

Vladimir Voronin did not take part in the GUAM summit in Baku because he did not wish to annoy the Kremlin on the threshold of his visit to Moscow.

OAZU NANTOI

It is rumored that “Vice President” Alexander Korolev may become Smirnov’s successor.

VITALY KULIK

The referendum results can be considered as an exact indicator of absence of Ukraine's influence in Transnistria and an assessment given by the Transnistrian Ukrainians to Kyiv’s policy in the region.

OAZU NANTOI

There is no talking about any “relations between Moldova and Transnistria”. In Transnistria there is a puppet regime, which was originally maintained and protected by Russia.

ALEKSANDR LEVCHENKOV

The one-day official visit of Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin to Moscow has not changed very much the relations between Moscow and Chisinau.

VITALIE DIACONU

The recent visit of Moldova’s President Vladimir Voronin in Moscow on August 8, 2006 provides an additional proof that Moldova’s foreign policy continues to oscillate between the European integration and strategic partnership with Russia.

OAZU NANTOI

Just a few years ago Igor Smirnov’s monopoly for power wasn’t questioned by anyone, but now the situation has become quite ambiguous.

VIKTOR ZHOSU

The reason for the Ukrainian authorities’ toughening their stand on the customs relations with Transnistria lies in the Europe-oriented policy of the official Kyiv.

VITALIE DIACONU

The elections to the Supreme Council of Transnistria have shown once again that Moldova has no instruments to influence the political situation on the left bank of the Dniester river, except for the acknowledgement of the elections illegitimate.

ROBERT WEINER

As we have seen, the “color” revolutions in the Black Sea region do not necessarily mean that an easy solution will be found to the conundrum in Transnistria. The West must appreciate the extent to which Russia can inflict real economic pain on Moldova. Alternatively, Moscow, flush with profits from the sale of oil, can also provide Moldova with positive economic incentives through an increase in economic aid within the framework of the CIS or on a bilateral basis. Furthermore, the ability of Europe to resolve the conflict in Transnistria has been damaged by the current identity crisis which the European Union is experiencing, which could adversely affect Western efforts at stabilizing the security of the Black Sea region.

ALEXEI MAKARKIN

The breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria has urged Ukraine to send peacekeeping forces to the region. On July 19, Igor Smirnov, the republic's president, said at a press conference after his visit to Kyiv and consultations with Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko: "I have asked [Ukraine] to consider sending peacekeeping forces to the Moldovan Republic of Transnistria, and received a positive answer."

VITALIY ZHURAVLEV

Transnistria University has been studying the situation in Transnistria for more than 10 years. On June 1-15, Transnistria University in cooperation with the Russian-Transnistrian Analysis Centre conducted a survey which involved 1,600 Transnistrian residents.

ALEXEI MAKARKIN

The Moldovan parliament has demanded the withdrawal of Russian troops from Transdnestr (a self-proclaimed republic in Moldova) and tougher control on that sector of the Ukraine-Moldova border.

VIKTOR ZHOSU

According to the Transnistria settlement plan presented by Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, the both parties involved in the conflict are supposed to compromise and to conduct a dialogue.

The streets of Moldova and Georgia are boiling with protest and anger, while Kosovo continues to grapple with its self-proclaimed statehood.

The most common fear expressed in the context of the Trans-Dniester peace settlement is that Brussels and Chisinau are about to make a cat’s-paw out of Kyiv to put an end to Trans-Dniestrian ruler Igor Smirnov.

A glaring economic crisis is to break out in Transnistria due to the customs conflict on the Ukrainian border. That was the conclusion drawn by the Russian interagency commission upon its arrival in the region.

 ZN recently met with Special EU Representative in Moldova Adriaan Jacobovits de Szeged on the eve of another round of "five plus two" negotiations (Moldova, Transdnistria, Ukraine, Russia, and the OSCE, plus the EU and the USA).

The new Supreme Council of Transnistria is elected. The Sunday election has been carried out just as Transnistria’s authorities wanted it to be, with neither international poll watchers nor public rallies.

Ukraine and Moldova are blocking a rebellious region.

The joint Moldovan and Ukrainian boundary and customs control posts will have been acting since this week at the border of Transnistria and Ukraine. On Friday representatives of the corresponding services in Chisinau and Kyiv signed a special agreement. For Transnistrian residents it means a full economic blockade.