170 Grigoriopol children commuting to the western bank of the Nistru where they are forced to hold their classes were stopped on Wednesday for half an hour at a checkpoint across the River, and when they were finally allowed to pass, the Transnistrian militsiya warned them that they would not be able to return home to Grigoriopol after classes. Eleonora Cercavschi, the principal of the lyceum Stefan cel Mare, has told Info-Prim Neo that the passage of the lyceum's students was barred under the pretext that there was an altercation going on between the Moldovan police and the Transnistrian militsiya. “They allowed us to pass only after we told everything to the authorities in Chisinau and to the press. However, they warned us we would not be able to cross the checkpoint back home. Today we even decided to make classes shorter so that we can go home earlier, and see, maybe they'll let us pass without incidents”, said Cercavschi. The students at the lyceum Stefan cel Mare, one of the eight Romanian-language schools on the eastern side of the Nistru, have been forced to commute 30 kilometers every day to Dorotcaia village on the western bank since they were evicted from their Grigoriopol building in July 2004.