The searches performed by the Transnistrian security forces at the Tiraspol Lyceum “Lucian Blaga” are only the first provocations staged by Russia following the initialing of the Association Agreement with the EU, said analysts and experts invited to the program “Fabrika” on the private TV channel Publika TV, IPN reports.
Political analyst Arcadie Barbarosie said that Chisinau may face different incidents until the signing of the accord. The Kremlin has also other instruments for launching provocations, except the Transnistrian region. These are the Moldovans working in Russia, the gas, the Russian market and others. The searches at the lyceum represent only an element of a broader strategy of Russia for exerting pressure on Chisinau and forcing the Moldovan authorities to review the decision to integrate into the EU.
The analyst also said that the political system of Moldova enables a group of people to govern the country without appearing before the public. The political parties are not democratic there is no transparency as regards party financing. The money comes from illegal operations, including through the Transnistrian segment. “Until we do not bring party financing in order, we will continue to be vulnerable to attacks,” stated Arcadie Barbarosie.
In the same program, lawyer Teo Carnat said there are several solutions for supporting the children studying at Moldovan - administered, Romanian - language schools in Transnistria. One of them is to financially and morally support the lyceums by increasing the salaries of teachers so that they are twice higher than military men’s pays. The students graduating from these lyceums should be admitted to state universities on budget-funded places, regardless of their score at school.
The lawyer also considers that the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Security and Information Service should supervise the persons who serve the criminal regime and should warn them that they will be held accountable if they do not give up this work. An international mission should be created to monitor the Security Zone.
Promo-LEX Association executive director Ion Manole said that there are half a million people in the Transnistrian region who are discriminated by the Moldovan state. “These people have the right to be treated as all the other citizens. But the authorities infringe this right without reason,” he stated.
Ion Iovcev, principal of the Lyceum “Lucian Blaga”, said over the phone that they witnessed such unpleasant incidents during 20 years. When the Transnistrian militia men came to him and told him to provide documents about the institution’s work, he said this information can be obtained from the Ministry of Education and the Reintegration Office.
On December 5, representatives of the Transnistrian security forces searched “Lucian Blaga” Lyceum on the pretext that there are complaints about deductions from salaries.
