EUROPA PENTRU TINE!Află despre beneficiile și oportunitățile oferite Republicii Moldova de Uniunea Europeană Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Oleg Serebrian Chairman of the Special Commission for Parliamentary Monitoring and Control over the Implementation of Reintegration Policies of the Republic of Moldova as well as representatives of the Bureau for Reintegration Policies paid a working visit to the communes of Cocieri Molovata and Molovata Nouă in the Dubăsari district During the meetings with representatives of local authorities farmers who own agricultural lands located beyond the Râbniţa-Tiraspol road as well as with residents of these settlements artificial barriers to free movement created by the so-called security forces of the Transnistrian region were discussed during the visit of Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Serebrian to the Roghi Gymnasium one of the eight Romanian-language schools in the Transnistrian region it was emphasized that the proper functioning of the gymnasium is under constant control of the constitutional authorities of Chișinău the efforts of the gymnasium administration aimed at increasing the number of pupils were noted and encouraged in comparison with the previous school year the number of schoolchildren this year has increased by 20% due to the involvement of pupils from the village of Țâbuleuca and the town of Dubăsari – settlements located in the perimeter temporarily not under the control of the constitutional authorities Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Serebrian drew attention to the benefits provided by European integration European and national development programs with the implementation of projects with major impact on the Security Zone especially in the field of local infrastructure development All materials featured on this site are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) Technical-technological administration: Information Technology and Cyber Security Service. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page 2025 Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Oleg Serebrian together with Deputy Roman Roșca Chairman of the Special Parliamentary Committee for Parliamentary Monitoring and Control over the Implementation of the Reintegration Policy of the Republic of Moldova undertook a working visit to the Dubăsari District Council where they discussed the most urgent problems faced by representatives of the district and local public authorities in Dubăsari The main topic addressed during the meeting was the evolution of the energy situation in the Transnistrian region and the repercussions on some settlements in the Security Zone perimeter but also the support that has already been offered to several localities in this perimeter Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Serebrian assured that the central public authorities will continue to come up with support measures for the local population in order to overcome the existing difficulties and increase energy resilience Another important topic addressed during the meeting was the Transnistrian settlement process The Deputy Prime Minister informed about the current situation of the negotiations and about the main aspects of the dialogue between Chișinău and Tiraspol Community members helped to welcome and register participants One of the workshop groups exploring the materials together Youth shared insights with others from their communities Some groups chose to study outside in the pleasant summer weather Group discussions helped the participants deepen their understanding Study of the conference materials stimulated the thinking of the youth Youth performed musical presentations they had prepared in their groups Songs often uplifted the hearts of all gathered Participants sharing some of the ideas arising from their study and consultation You don't have permissions to access this page Moldova — Victor Besleaga remembers well the start of the war that killed his brother It was dark when Russian troops surrounded the station in Dubăsari a 20-minute drive from the border with Ukraine leaving one of the soldiers dead; to save their own lives the police soon gave up their arms and surrendered Victor remembers being transported to Tiraspol the self-proclaimed capital of Transnistria and paraded before cameras broadcasting back to Russia had become a "Romanian Nazi infiltrator."  He spent the next month gasping for air in a tiny basement cell He went straight to the hospital — and from there rejoined the police and fought to retake the city he served in gray-blue eyes and wearing a black Champion tracksuit speaking in the classroom he attended as a child now a local history museum run by his wife It is a 15-minute drive (and a Russian military checkpoint away) from the city where he once worked as a cop where 10 people died in the conflict that began in the darkness of March 2 Five of the deceased were combatants who fought to keep it part of Moldova But today the village is an isolated enclave surrounded by a hostile entity The government of Russian President Vladimir Putin insists the residents of Transnistria There have been claimed terrorist incidents there located to the east of the Dniester river all the way to the border with Ukraine while Moldova's central government in Chișinău The negotiations that ended the 1992 conflict resulted in oddities like this community of just over 2,100 people being engulfed by a separatist region and divided from the rest of the country by a wide river The only way to reach the village directly by road requires driving through a hostile entity where as many as 1,500 Russian soldiers operate alongside Transnistrian forces as "peacekeepers" — and where some 300,000 people have forged a separate national identity a generation now having been falsely taught that their erstwhile neighbors tried to carry out a genocide of Russian speakers For those unwilling or unable to pass through the separatist region — where oligarchs backed by free-flowing Russian gas control the politics and where authorities maintain a blacklist of personas non grata — there is a ferry free of charge and capable of carrying both people and cars But the ferry does not operate if it is too windy or when the river has frozen as typically happens a couple weeks a year Transnistria closed its borders altogether to arrest the spread of COVID-19 eliminating that travel option for more than a year The village itself hosts Russian and Transnistrian forces who greet visitors as they get off the ferry and an old but regularly maintained BTR-70 armored personnel carrier from Russia an indignity — foreign usurpers on land that was mutually agreed to be Moldova — that some now find intolerable "The feelings about the Russian peacekeepers were always negative because they are staying illegally in the village," Victor said the relationship between locals and peacekeepers became even worse." one that was over before the outside world knew what had happened But Victor believes the recent explosions in Transnistria are the work of Russian military intelligence designed to justify Moscow intervening further there and expanding a foothold that could be used to threaten not just Moldova but states in the Balkans some of which are part of the NATO alliance Military experts generally don't think much of the forces currently stationed in the breakaway republic Their equipment largely consists of museum pieces even if the raw numbers — a combined Russian and Transnistrian force of perhaps 10,000 men — are more than twice the size of Moldova's army locals say they can hear regular combat training even if the current rumblings from Transnistria do not culminate in all-out combat could exploit Moldova's desire to avoid an existential war with Russia by consolidating control over its side of the river without much of a fight providing a feel-good victory for "Russian speakers" that the Kremlin could trumpet back home The last military conflict in Moldova broke apart the country family and friends suddenly finding themselves on different sides of a new de facto border and consuming wildly different narratives about what had just happened.  Now the conflict in Ukraine and Russia's plans for the region are fraying relations within the same communities "war is dividing families and friends," Victor said And people think what's happening in Ukraine could change their lives here again "It's already destroyed relationships," Alexandra Besleaga Victor's wife and the director of the local history museum said over instant coffee and a smorgasbord of sweets imported from Ukraine wearing a light blue hoodie and gold hoop earrings Relations with in-laws are tenuous in the best of times But now Alexandra and Victor say they hardly ever talk to the parents of their daughter's husband leaving an older population who are "victims of propaganda," she argued Some are nostalgic for the time of the Soviet Union "mainly because people were young and healthy real problems were hidden by the regime and there was no border between Moldova and Transnistria." But the rose-colored sentimentality is exploited by a geopolitical agenda found on television and in online news Moscow portrayed as a besieged defender of the Orthodox faith and the traditional family in the face of constant attacks from a decadent Europe "Russia is protecting Eastern Europe from LGBT communities in the West there are families in which children who are living abroad tell their parents that life in Western Europe is much better," she added The local gossip is that some have already stocked up on rubles But even as they say they are used to Transnistria and its Russian backers making noise and causing problems Victor said he would stay and take up arms again — if the government gave him any she worries he'll be targeted before any conflict even begins She loves living in the same village as her mother "except when you start talking about politics." Have a news tip? Email this reporter: cdavis@insider.com is officially considered the day the Transnistria war began the first armed clashes between Moldovan police forces and military groups in the separatist region were reported in the last months of 1991 After the Republic of Moldova proclaimed its independence the relations between Chisinau and Tiraspol deteriorated considerably located almost entirely east of the Dniester River (except for the town of Tighina and two nearby villages actions were intensified to replace the authorities and institutions subordinated to the Chisinau government with those under the control of the so-called Transnistrian Republic The Transnistrian separatists set up an important military force which according to some sources were about 20,000 strong equipped and trained by the 14th Army of the Russian Federation its armed forces were replaced by several thousand police and volunteer detachments The National Army of the Republic of Moldova was established The first fighting between the Chisinau-controlled forces and separatist troops took place on December 13 when an attack by Transnistrian guards near the Dubasari bridge took place Four Moldovan police and 20 Transnistrian guards were killed in the attack guards and Cossacks attacked the headquarters of the Dubasari police station the last police station still under Chisinau's control 34 people who had taken refuge inside the police station were disarmed and taken prisoner Authorities and police from Dubasari and neighboring localities who had managed to escape withdrew to Cocieri a town that became a resistance center in the fight against the separatists in Tiraspol a special police detachment from Chisinau crossed the Dniester on ice to come to rescue of those who had taken refuge in Cocieri Guards and Cossacks attacked the village of Cocieri the Transnistrian forces entered the village of Cosnita killing a police officer and injuring several others the Transnistrian forces blew up the bridges over the Dniester in Vadul lui Vodă and Dubasari The Moldovan troops near Roghi were attacked the villages of Cosnita and Gura Bicului were attacked with mines President Mircea Snegur and the Chisinau Parliament protested and called on the international community denouncing the aggression committed by the  Russian 14th Army on the territory of the Republic of Moldova it continued to openly support the separatist regime in Tiraspol A ceasefire agreement was signed on March 24 followed by an exchange of prisoners.Five days later the then Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova called on the Transnistrian separatists to lay down weapons within 48 hours requesting that Moldovan forces move 15 km away from Tighina A new ceasefire agreement was signed in Chisinau Chisinau would be the only party observing the agreement several attacks took place in the areas of Tighina The Moldovan troops were attacked with rocket launchers and missiles Mines and missiles were also launched on localities 20 Russian armored vehicles entered the city of Tighina the quadripartite negotiations between the foreign ministers of the Republic of Moldova A foreign ministers’ meeting was held on April 6 and the participants adopted a declaration against the involvement of the 14th Army in the conflict which also stated that the Moldovan authorities were to secure the rule of law throughout the Republic of Moldova A working group was set up in mid-April to defuse the situation in Tighina and for the Moldovan police and the separatist militia in the city to ensure order would monitor the 262 km-long front line separating the Moldovan troops from the separatist forces only the Moldovan and Romanian observers had reached the area an agreement was signed at Gura Bacului regarding the withdrawal of the armed forces the separatists blew up the nearby bridge over the Dniester Dubasari-Pod and Roghi were attacked the following days The crisis deepened after General Netkhakov received orders from Moscow to prepare the units of the 14th Army for battle Russian tank and artillery units left the Tiraspol garrison Zolonceni in Dubasari district were attacked along the way The Moldovan troops managed to resists most of the attacks President Snegur protested the aggression of the Russian army Moscow claimed it was not involved in destabilizing the situation in the region the separatists’ attacks intensified in Tighina those who remained loyal to the Chisinau authorities were being threatened and persecuted Andrei Ivantoc and Alexandru Lesco -  were arrested in Transnistria the authorities in Chisinau seemed to give in to Russia’s pressure and become increasingly conciliatory with the separatists in Tiraspol and Moscow Moscow kept accusing Chisinau of aggression and attempts to exterminate the Slavic population in the region and Romania was accused of supplying weapons to the Republic of Moldova the bloodiest fighting of the entire war took place in June the city was largely under the control of the Moldovan troops 14th Army tanks tried to force the bridge from Tiraspol to Tighina More than 200 Moldovan fighters lost their lives in the fighting over that city when the presidents of Russia and of the Republic of Moldova  Boris Yeltsin and Mircea Snegur respectively The signing of this agreement seems to have been frustrating for some of Chisinau's partners Moldova had pleaded for an international peacekeeping mission and a broad involvement of international organizations to later drop position and accept Russia’s stand peacekeepers were introduced consisting only of soldiers subordinated to Tiraspol while Romania was excluded from this process the only international body directly involved in settling the conflict was the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)  Russia and Ukraine would get the same status the United States and the European Union joined the negotiation process the Republic of Moldova has no control over the Transnistrian separatist region which continues to declare itself an independent state Only a few localities on the left bank of the Dniester In addition to the Transnistrian armed forces there are about 1,500 Russian soldiers in the region and an impressive arsenal of weapons and ammunition in the town of Cobasna Moldova needs a good relationship with Romania several presidential candidates have promoted a sovereignist and one of them was declared persona non grata in the Republic of Moldova simultaneously promote messages containing sovereignist and anti-EU themes The messages are also featured on “apolitical” pages publishing mundane or religious content Networks that promote the same messages were identified in a comprehensive online study Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's efforts to consolidate his power at home have led to both the erosion of his regime and the deterioration of Turkey's relations with its traditional partners Razboi si propaganda: O cronologie a conflictului ruso-ucrainean" /> Razboiul lui Putin cu lumea libera: Propaganda, dezinformare, fake news" /> Developed by Treeworks Chișinău - Prime Minister Dorin Recean had a meeting with representatives of local public authorities and deconcentrated public services in Dubasari district They discussed opportunities for development of localities according to the European model rehabilitation of infrastructure and attracting investments to speed up the country's modernisation Recean referred to the autumn referendum: "We are all united around the objective of European integration welfare and better living conditions for all inhabitants on both sides of the Dniester," he said the official spoke about the importance of joining efforts to implement projects that build European Moldova and provide better living conditions for people throughout the country It is what the Government is building together with local authorities for the comfort of our citizens" an example in this respect is the European Village programme which supports a number of infrastructure initiatives and is an exercise for local representatives in drafting projects Thanks to this programme and other investments the number of projects carried out by the Executive has exceeded 910 and the Government is still building roads The meeting focused on environmental issues The representatives also discussed the possibilities to develop tourism the need to open new family doctors' centres The farmers and economic agents who have farmlands beyond the Rabnita-Tiraspol highway will benefit from a green corridor through the internal customs checkpoints and will no longer face difficulties when carrying the harvest The farmers will no longer pay the tax of 3,000 lei for the certificates issued by the Chamber of Commerce Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita announced the change at a meeting with more farmers from the eastern Dubasari district One of the solutions proposed is that the carriage of the agricultural production is made based on a confirmatory act released by the Dubasari district council the local mayoralties are to release a certificate about the plot of land’s size farmers might carry the harvest through the internal customs checkpoints „I want to make sure that this will be a correct and fair process; we hope that competent people will manage to ensure this solution locally,’’ the Prime Minister said The participants in the meeting discussed also the issue of the taxes imposed by the structures from the left bank of Dniester as well as the impediments created through the crossing points The sides also tackled potential changes to the regulation on subsidization in agriculture the prime minister stressed that the mechanism of providing subsidies in agriculture was presently in process of adjusting said that the today’s visit by the PM showed an increased attention on behalf of the authorities for the settlements from the left bank of Dniester which are under the jurisdiction of the Chisinau authorities Five mayoralties from the Dubasari district (Molovata Noua Dorotcaia and Parata) have lands placed beyond the Rabnita-Tiraspol highway of which 6,499 hectares on agricultural purpose Chișinău - Twenty six projects worth 13 million lei will be implemented in the settlements from the Security Zone and the owners of farmlands placed beyond the Rabnita-Tiraspol highway will receive compensations amounting to 2 million lei The actions are included in the Programme of activities for Moldova’s reintegration for 2024 Twenty six projects will be carried out in all which aim at modernizing the Latin-script education institutions repairing and endowing the administrative buildings The Stefan cel Mare gymnasium from the Molovata village Dubasari district (renovation of electricity networks) Alexei Mateevici lyceum from the Sanatauca village Floresti district (renovation of the sports hall) Dubasari district (renovation of the sports hall and sports field) as well as other education institutions are to benefit from the support more schools will get one-off assistance each for the covering of the expenses for maintenance The measures planned deals with the thermal insulation of buildings renovation of sports fields and playgrounds The Centre for elderly people from the Varnita village as well as the building of the Community Centre from the Puhaceni village Two million lei will be earmarked to compensate the expenditures borne by the owners of farmlands placed beyond the Rabnita-Tiraspol highway as a result of the payments provided when crossing the checkpoints The money will be distributed by the Dubasari district council based on a regulation worked out in conditions of transparency and equity The representative of the Bureau of Reintegration Policies head of the Department of Sectoral Policies of Reintegration jointly with the Secretary of State of the Ministry of Education and Research Adriana Cazacu-Țigaie and the head of the General Education Directorate of the same ministry Valentin Crudu visited 4 institutions teaching in Romanian from Dubasari district - Theoretical High School "Ștefan cel Mare și Sfânt" from Grigoriopol temporarily settled in the village of Doroțcaia; - “Mihai Eminescu” Theoretical High School temporarily located in the village of Corjova; During the discussions with the management of the educational institutions and the teaching staff current issues in the process of functioning of the schools were addressed all measures taken by the Bureau of Reintegration Policies and the Ministry of Education and Research to ensure the proper functioning of schools were announced Mention was made of the full openness to overcome all the difficulties the schools face especially given that the field of activity is very specific A special topic in the discussions was the implementation of the Protocol Decision "On ensuring the functioning of Moldovan schools teaching in Latin script" The issue of insurance with their own premises was also discussed especially since the Theoretical High School "Ștefan cel Mare şi Sfânt" and the Theoretical High School "Mihai Eminescu" are temporarily located in other localities than the ones in which they are based the temporary arrangement of the spaces that do not belong to them do not fall within the observance of the right to education and do not stimulate the creation of a fully favorable educational environment the premises become a more stringent issue when it is found that some of them do not have gyms the classrooms are small and non-compliant as well as a whole series of many other problematic aspects Head of Department Aurelia Barbaroș and Secretary of State Adriana Cazacu-Țigaie reconfirmed that the issue of providing premises in order to create favorable safe and predictable conditions is a key one in the dialogue process with Tiraspol including on the platform of working groups for education Assurances have been given that all necessary efforts will be made to resolve this problem which has unfortunately become a historic one it is worth mentioning that the issue of endowment with their own premises is pressing for all Romanian-language educational institutions in the Transnistrian region with the sole exception of the gymnasium in the city of Bender It was agreed to continue a permanent dialogue first of all in the interest of the 810 children studying in these 4 educational institutions approved a programme of activities on Moldova’s reintegration for 2017 for the carrying out of which 15 million lei was provided for in the state budget The programme envisages financing of measures for the development and technical and material modernization of education institutions to develop and modernize institutions from the education system the government will provide by a one-off material aid worth 75,000 lei meant to endow the theoretical lyceums from the cities of Tiraspol gymnasiums from the villages of Corjova and Roghi The activities were selected following a contest of projects on behalf of the local and central public authorities These projects are to be implemented in the Security Zone contributing to the promotion of measures to strengthen confidence between the residents of the banks of Dniester Prime Minister Ion Chicu considered the situation on the water level in the Dniester River as a result of heavy rains of the last days and the danger of floods Attending the meeting was the leadership of the Ministry of Interior specialized public institutions and local public authorities The Ukrainian Water Resources Agency transmitted on 24.06.2020 the information on the upstream and downstream flows of the Dniester River Following the heavy rainfall in the Dniester river basin and taking into account the increased flow on the river at the Galici and Zaleșici hydrotechnical points the flow was 3480 m3 / s and 1560 m3 / s respectively downstream of the Dnestrovsk hydrotechnical node the discharged flow was increased between 1800-1850 m3 / s with a subsequent increase of up to 2000-2050 m3 / s rainfall in Ukraine is abundant but slowing down The IGSU management informed the premier that the change in the discharge regime at the Novodnestrovsc and Dubasari hydraulic junctions has caused significant increase in water level On 24 June in Otaci the water level in the Dniester River increased by 3.5 m This increase determined the need to take preventive measures in Vălcineț where the stormwater outlets to the Dniester River were blocked to prevent water from entering the locality The State Hydrometeorological Service forecasts for 24 June – 2 July level increases on Naslavcea village – Dubasari where a part can be flooded and the sewerage system is temporarily blocked IGSU is constantly communicating with local authorities and is in the process of mobilizing the necessary resources to manage the situation and reduce the consequences In order to protect the rest area on the bank of the Dniester River the rescuers prepared a mobile protection dam The premier asked to mobilize all necessary resources to montor the situation together with the local authorities so as to take the preventive measures discussed The premier called for an assessment of the losses in the localities that have suffered as a result of the floods and for information to be provided on the necessary support for the affected households