The Transnistrian leader refuses to continue the dialogue with Moldova, promised to Dmitry Medvedev

The Transnistrian leader Igor Smirnov refuses to continue the dialogue with the leadership of Moldova about the status of an unrecognized republic. "What can you agree with the authorities that conflict with your own people? Do you seriously think that it is able to protect the Transnistrians from nationalists?" - Smirnov said in an interview with Interfax .

Recall that last week the protest rally that began in Chisinau after the victory in the parliamentary elections of the Party of the Communists grew into riots . As a result, the Constitutional Court decided to recalculate the votes . In this regard, according to the leader of the Transnistria, in Moldova "there is no and in the near future there will be no political stability, there is no holistic society that would be interested in maintaining the statehood of his country."

According to him, the past elections indicate a deplorable situation in Moldavian society. “The option by which they went in Moldova does not allow us to talk about some opinion of the majority: of 60% of the population who took part in the vote, only half voted for the Communists,” Smirnov said. “That is, they are supported by a third of the country's population”.

“And how can you perceive a policy that is still sure that the people of Transnistria can be imposed from the outside: to appoint someone, to force something to something?” Smirnov tells about the president of Moldova Vladimir Voronin. “It is time for Mr. Voronin to understand that we ourselves decide his fate and talk to us only on equal terms.”

At the end of March, Vladimir Voronin also refused to negotiate with Transnistria. "The Transnistrian side is not yet ready for compliance with the obligations and continue the outlined dialogue," he said.

Negotiations were suspended in February 2006, but at a meeting in Moscow on March 18, the parties agreed to revive a dialogue with the participation of intermediaries and observers. The Kremlin had every reason to consider this to be their diplomatic victory, but, as it turned out, Russian intermediaries were too early.

In a recent interview with the Spanish newspaper, the President of Moldova said that the conflict with Transnistria was impossible to resolve precisely because of Russia's intervention. He called the Transnistrian leader a puppet, "which fulfills all the whims of Moscow," and the ministers of the unrecognized republic - agents and spies of the Russian special services, notes the Moscow Komsomolets .

In Moscow, Voronin's accusations caused bewilderment. “The official position of Russia is the territorial integrity of Moldova within the borders of 1991,” said Gennady Konenko, head of the department of Moldova and Transnistria of the CIS Institute. “Moscow considers the Transnistria part of Moldova. I can write off the sharp statements of Voronin only for his fatigue.”