Great disappointment

“We wanted the best, but it turned out...” And it turned out as always. Alas and ah, the project called “Evgeniy Shevchuk” turned out to be beautiful and correct in form, but, unfortunately, completely empty in content, a prop with a claim to the “wind of change” and “revolution from above.”

Changes were needed. Changes were expected. Not only in Transnistria. Chisinau, Moscow, Kyiv, Brussels looked with hope at the opportunity that had arisen to finally move the process of political settlement between the capitals of the “Moldavian republics” off the ground. But…

The anniversary of the inauguration of the president of the unrecognized state is just around the corner, and more and more skeptical remarks are being heard towards the failed “revolutionaries”.

For many Pridnestrovians, the days before the New Year will probably be their last working days. Large reductions are expected from January 2013. Price increases. It is still not clear when, how and with what Tiraspol is going to pay for Russian gas.

The conflict between the executive and legislative powers is becoming increasingly deeper.

Foreign policy does not foretell anything new either. Transnistria, as we now understand, will continue to remain in the same limbo. Nobody promises independence. As it turns out, Evgeniy Vasilyevich’s team has neither the ability nor the desire to come to an agreement with Chisinau. Promising statements gave way to increasingly openly undiplomatic and unambiguous statements in the spirit of Igor Nikolaevich’s “good old traditions”: “We will die, but we will not give up.”

Smirnov left. So what? Nothing. Except for one thing, perhaps, disappointment.

What and who should we wait for now? Perhaps the “end of the world”... Although, as some believe, even this will bypass Transnistria.