
The Border Police of Moldova did not allow the Russian delegation to the country, who went to Transnistria to celebrate the "Day of the Republic" on September 2, Interfax reports with reference to the message of the department.
The Russians were deployed on the border on Thursday and Friday. Major General Alexander Vladimirov General Vladimirov, assistant to the executive director of the Russian Mir Foundation, Vsevolod Zheleznov, members of the delegation of South Ossetia, led by the head of its “presidential administration,” Igor Kozalenko, Olga Gukalenko and the editor-in-chief of the Arguments and Facts, Igor Chernyak, did not get into the country.
The Moldovan authorities explained the refusal to enter the Russians by the fact that they "did not indicate the purpose of the trip, while heading to the Transnistrian region."
On July 28, the authorities of Romania and Hungary did not allow the aircraft to proceed through their airspace to Chisinau, on board the Russian delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. On August 2, the Moldova government declared Rogozin Persona Non Grata . Such a decision of the country's authority was explained by the xenophobic statements of Rogozin regarding Moldova and its citizens.