​RUSSIA SHALL NOT LEAVE TRANSNISTRIA – DEPUTY PREMIER ROGOZIN

“Russia believes in Transnistria and shows that it shall never leave it”, the Russian President’s Special Representative on Transnistria, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin stated during his meeting with Transnistrian president Yevgeny Shevchuk that took place in the Central Museum of Armed Forces in Moscow on Wednesday.

Rogozin assured that Russia will be taking all necessary measures to protect its citizens living in Transnistria in case the Ukrainian scenario happens to repeat in Moldova.

“One should not have illusions about whether or not Russia will hesitate about defending its compatriots in Transnistria or not. Russia shall defend them, definitely. And I would recommend nobody to try our patience”, stressed the presidential representative.

“Russia reaffirms its commitments of a reliable and stable peacekeeper and partner both to Tiraspol and Chisinau. Despite the current tension in region, there is a great number of people in Moldova, who feel interest to and sympathy for Russia “, believes Dmitry Rogozin.

As already reported by Infotag, an exhibition called “Transnistria – a Russian Boundary” opened in the said Moscow museum on Wednesday dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the strategic Iasi-Chisinau operation and the 90th anniversary of the Moldovan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (MASSR, within the Ukrainian SSR in 1924-1940).

To attend its inauguration, Transnistrian president Yevgeny Shevchuk and minister of foreign affairs Nina Shtanski flew to Moscow on Tuesday from the VIP lounge of the Chisinau International Airport on board a Siberian Airlines plane. Before that, however, a squabble happened between the travelers’ security officers and Moldovan journalists who were trying to videotape and photograph the Transnistrian leaders’ coming to the airport.

Before, Tiraspol officials preferred to fly from the Odessa Airport. Lately, however, the Ukrainian authorities began treating the separatist Transnistria more strictly, and restricted Transnistrian leaders’ entry into Ukraine.