The bank accounts of the Tiraspol-based lyceum “Lucian Blaga” have been frozen over allegations of “unpaid taxes”.

Lucian Blaga's principal Ion Iovcev has told IPN that the move came after the lyceum, which is one of the eight schools in the Transnistrian region that provides education in the Latin script, failed to pay “taxes” as demanded by the “host nation”.

At a recent meeting organized by the Ministry of Education and attended by the managers of the eight schools and representatives of the Reintegration Bureau, the participants underlined that pressures exerted by the Tiraspol authorities and obstructions to the educational process were unacceptable, and reiterated the position that the stringent problems concerning the Moldovan schools must be discussed within the existing negotiation frameworks, including within the Sectoral Working Group for Education.

Ion Iovcev says that other schools in the region too face similar pressures, with the Tiraspol administration imposing “taxes on activity”.