Posted on 08/20/2014 11:16:46 PM PDT by tcrlaf
(Google Translated) Transnistria declared mobilization.
Chapter Tiraspol administration Yevgeny Shevchuk signed a decree calling all conscripts, reservists and employees of so-called state structures.
In a paper published on the official website Shevchuk says that during the months of Transnistria will be charges in military peacekeeping force. The decree will come into force tomorrow.
Responsibility for its implementation rests with the head of the regional department of defense. Earlier in Transnistria repeatedly stated about possible provocations on the part of Ukraine , which could lead to armed clashes.
There have been several claims of a Ukrainian troop buildup along the border, and Russia has vowed to protect TransN.
Yesterday, there was an article stating that Transnistrian journalists expected to be at war by August 26th, because of some kind of an incident, from either Moldova or Ukraine.
Original Russian: http://news.mail.ru/inworld/moldova/politics/19260580/
Press in Transnistria foresees war in the region on August 26 http://www.moldova.org/press-in-transnistria-foresees-war-in-the-region-on-august-26/
Sure. Russia is going to be opening another front in other words.
"Transnistria is the only place in Europe that still uses the hammer and sickle on its flag. Now that Russia has annexed Crimea and is eyeing eastern Ukraine, many in the breakaway Moldovan republic hope that they are next on Moscow's agenda."
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/transnistria-soviet-leftover-or-russian-foothold-in-europe-a-965801.html
I guess if the Russkies are going to lose their attempt in Ukraine to create another Transnistria, they'll just use actual Transnistria to create more provocations.
“Transnistria is the only place in Europe that still uses the hammer and sickle on its flag.”
On the other hand, they make excellent transnistr radios! ;)
Another rape by Putin.
Lol!!
“On the other hand, they make excellent transnistr radios! ;)”
Oh, man..... A pun only a foreign policy wonk can appreciate...chuckle.
Just like we said before, when Russia openly invades with its own Ground Forces, the Russian army in Transnistria would open another front behind the Ukrainians. Unfortunately for Russia, this gambit risks bringing Romania and NATO into the conflict.
>> Transnistria is another Neo-Stalinist ...
Does you know enough about Transnistria to talk about it ?
Have you any proof of neo-Stalinist orders there?
Do you know about Transnistria? It is what Putin would like to make in Ukraine. A Pro-Russian kleptocracy with corrupt elections and mass poverty with a nostalgia for the Soviet Union. In other words, something like Russia today.
"Transnistria: a den of crime, hotbed of human rights abuses and a risk to international security
“Most people”, the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic’s burlesque propaganda website admits, “don’t know Transnistria exists”. For the sake of the survival of the Transnistrian regime, that’s probably a good thing.
Located on the left-bank of the River Dniester between Moldova to the west and the Ukraine to the east, the Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublica is one of the few remaining scars the Soviet Union left on South East Europe – a province suspended in a frozen conflict and stuck in a time warp where grand statues of Stalin and Lenin still dominate the skyline.
The province of Transnistria, much like the rest of the Republic of Moldova, is typical of many countries in South Eastern Europe for its rich ethnic mix, being home to diverse groups of Moldovans, Romanians, Ukrainians, Russians, Gagauz, ethnic Jews, Poles, Bulgarians and Roma. Across sovereign Moldova, Moldovans comprise around three quarters of the country’s 4.3 million citizens with ethnic Ukrainians and Russians making up much of the remainder – the bulk of who live in Transnistria.
Since 1956, Transnistria has been home to Russia’s 14th Army who has capitalized on its convenient strategic geographic position to garrison troops and stockpile munitions. The collapse of Soviet rule in Moldova had inspired hopes that such troops would depart the state’s newly-liberated territory. On August 27th 1991 the Moldovan Parliament – comprised of MPs from across the country’s territory – passed a declaration calling on Russia to "to terminate the illegal state of occupation and annexation and the withdrawal of Soviet troops from its national territory".
Despite a binding agreement between Moldova’s Prime Minister Andrejz Sangheli and Russia’s Viktor Chernomyrdin signed on 21st October 1994 in which the Russian Federation pledged to "relocate troops to other sites" and guarantee "the political settlement of the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova", the 14th Army remains in situ today.
It appears unlikely that Russian Government ever had any intention of honouring their word. More than two thousand troops Russian remain on Transnistrian soil; all but guaranteeing the survival of Smirnov’s government against all enemies, external or internal.
All Moldovan attempts to reclaim their sovereign territory have failed; the most notable being the little-known ‘War of Transnistria’ between March and July 1992 where the 14th Army strongly backed the attempts of local ethnic Russian militias in their attempts to prevent the territory from integrating with the newly-sovereign Republic of Moldova.
Since August 27th 1991, Transnistria has operated separately from Moldova as the Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublica – and as personal property of the family and friends of “President” Igor Smirnov. Smirnov (of which more later), who first came to Transnistria a few years before taking office as President in order to manage a large manufacturing firm on behalf of the USSR, is exactly the kind of jolly and cuddly-looking figurehead one has come to expect from authoritarian regimes over the years.
Today, the Russian Federation’s influence and grip on life in Transnistria is plain to see."
More at link: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2009/11/transnistria-a-hotbed-of-crime-human-rights-abuses-and-a-risk-to-international-security.html
This is what will happen to Ukraine if they do not fight off the Russkies.
“All Moldovan attempts to reclaim their sovereign territory have failed”
Moldova Republic should give up Transnistria. It is better not to have inside its territory a Russian enclave.It function like a Trojan horse.
Let Moldova reclaim the land. Let Russia have the people since they want them so badly.
“A .... kleptocracy with corrupt elections and mass poverty”
I hate be the one to break it to you, but that is what Urkaine was, long before the current troubles.
Hate to break it to you Russkie. Unlike your home country, Ukraine has a chance to break free from the kleptocracy. You and your comrades, however, are congenital slaves.
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