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Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, special representative of Vladimir Putin according to Transnistria, intends to offer the State Duma to amend the law on citizenship, which would allow Russian citizenship to residents of Transnistria, born after 1991. This is reported by Interfax.

Today, residents of the region "quite easily" receive citizenship of Moldova, Romania, Poland or Bulgaria, Rogozin said. According to the official, they seek citizenship of these countries because Russia does not give them their citizenship. “We believe that this situation is wrong,” said Deputy Prime Minister.

At the same time, according to Rogozin, about 200 thousand Russian citizens are already living in Transnistria. Meanwhile, the entire population of the region is a little more than 500 thousand people.

In the early 2000s, Russia massively issued passports to residents of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. In the summer of 2008, Moscow unleashed a war with Georgia under the pretext of protecting its citizens living in the second of these regions. The result was the rejection of Abkhazia and South Ossetia from Georgia. Formally, they became independent states, in fact found themselves under the Russian protectorate.

In April 2014, a month after the Russian annexation of Crimea, the Supreme Council of Transnistria unanimously accepted the appeal to Vladimir Putin with a request to recognize the independence of the region. "From the moment of the formation of the Transnistrian Moldavian Republic, a whole generation of citizens has grown up who realize themselves as Transnistrians and do not accept identity with the population of the Republic of Moldova, sharing the values ​​of the Russian world and striving to expand community with the Russian Federation," the document was approved.

The speaker of the Supreme Council Mikhail Burl, commenting on the appeal, recalled the results of the plebiscite in 2006, in which the residents of the region spoke out for the independence of Transnistria and its subsequent accession to Russia. “While we took the first step,” said Burla. “Then it will be visible.”

Transnistria declared independence from Moldova in 1990. Today, the sovereignty of the region is recognized only by Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno -Karabakh, which themselves do not have international recognition.

After the victory of the Ukrainian Revolution, Kyiv announced the detention of the Transnistrian spy, and Tiraspol - the provocations that are prepared on the border by certain Ukrainian nationalists. Experts consider Transnistria as a possible bridgehead for Russia's invasion to the Odessa region of Ukraine.