​“WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ON TRANSNISTRIA’S SIDE, AND NOW ON CRIMEA’S”, ZHIRINOVSKY SAYS

MP Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, has stated that the LDPR has always supported and shall be further supporting Transnistria.

On Wednesday, he received in Moscow the new chairman of the Transnistrian supreme soviet [parliament] Alexander Korshunov and stated to him: “The LDPR has always been on Transnistria’s side and lately – on the Crimea’s side, too. And everything what depends on the LDPR faction in the Russian State Duma [parliament] for providing help to Transnistria is always done by us. May be the Liberal Democrats are not always heard in the Russian parliament by the party of majority [Yedinaya Rossiya], but we do our utmost to promote our initiatives aimed at Transnistria’s development. And we act”, stressed Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

The interlocutors discussed questions of interaction between the “two countries” and the Transnistria development strategy.

Zhirinovsky named the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) “an amorphous and incomprehensible formation”. He criticized also the Russia-Belarus Union due to “the constant reciprocal reproaches heard in it”.

“The Liberal Democratic Party has always stood up for restoration of a united powerful state. Its name can be easily determined – for instance ‘Russian Confederation’, RC. It should reunite all the former USSR territories. The Confederation’s capital, Moscow, will be in charge of external policy, defense, finance, telecommunications, energy, transport. All the rest will be entrusted to constituent regions. And, certainly, such united state should be devoid of a national [ethnic] division. Such a model would solve many current problems and smoothen up external conflicts”, believes Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

Speaking on the same day in the State Duma, the LDPR leader criticized Russia’s foreign policy and, in particular, voiced indignation that Moscow attaches much more attention to elections in Ukraine and America than to handling “our compatriots’ problems”. He referred to the situation in Transnistria and stated: “We give them neither money enough nor possibilities for their youth to receive education, and the youth go to Romania!”