Both candidates in the second round of the May 14 elections for the head of the Gagauz autonomy in Moldova were pro-Russian; and consequently, it was inevitable that a pro-Moscow figure would receive the most votes. But as the one who did, Yevgenia Gutsul of the Shor Party, has especially close ties to the politically ambitious Moldovan oligarch, Ilan Shor, …
The Russian Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador-at-Large Vitaly Tryapitsin said that based on this agreement, peace on the Dniester River and stability has been maintained for 30 years
Transnistria’s State Security Ministry said last week that a terrorist attack had been averted, which had been plotted to target senior officials of the republic and an OSCE delegation that visited the eastern bank of the Dniester