Transnistria and Gagauzia

​TIRASPOL PERCEIVES STOPPAGE OF RUSSIAN JOURNALISTS AT CHISINAU AIRPORT AS INFORMATION BLOCKADE OF TRANSNISTRIA

10 april, 2015

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan Republic (PMR) has perceived the Thursday’s incident at the Chisinau International Airport – where a film crew of the Zvezda television channel was not let into Moldova due to the absence of accreditation for the Russian visitors – as “a new step towards aggravation of the information blockade of Transnistria”.

The ministry is convinced that the true reason of the stoppage was exactly the goal of the Moscow journalists – to shoot a documentary film about Transnistria and about how the situation in the PMR is influenced by the blockade measures being taken by Moldova and Ukraine against the Transnistrian economy.

The official Tiraspol maintains that the Zvezda journalists had all necessary documents about them to work in Transnistria.

The ministry reminded that last month, too, Moldova did not let in a film crew of a central Russian television channel. Tiraspol maintains the reason of that halting was that shortly before it, this very crew showed its film about Transnistria on the Russia-1 television channel.

The Transnistrian MFA called upon the Moldovan side to stop this “witch hunting” and put an end to restrictions in all spheres of bilateral relations.

Infotag’s dossier: On April 9, the Russian journalists were not permitted to Moldova because they did not have an accreditation. The need to have an accreditation is recognized in any country, including Russia. As for Transnistria, its authorities have many a time halted Chisinau journalists on the border under the pretext that they did not have an accreditation by Tiraspol. Moreover, Transnistrian border guards repeatedly barred access to the region for various-level Moldovan officials, including even President Vladimir Voronin, for representatives of international organizations and of foreign embassies working in Moldova – under the pretext that their comings had not been agreed-upon with the Tiraspol administration.

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