New security program implemented in Transnistria

Passport data of the persons who enter the Transnistrian region are being stocked in the databases of the migration checkpoints administrated by the separatist authorities of the Transnistrian region, Info-Prim Neo's correspondent reports. According to sources within the region's conscription centers, the system is conceived to automatically detect persons bound to military service and disseminate the information through a network to all the agencies of the unrecognized republic's defense ministry. The procedure is part of a new program meant to ensure the security of the region, going under the codename Sprut (Octopus). Now the employees of the identification evidence centers will be able to check in a computerized manner whether the persons who enter the Transnistrian region hold a military service record card, amid a pronounced trend of scrutiny for entries and exits of military men to and out of the region. Until 1 January 2008, foreign citizens, as well as the residents of the right side of the Nistru, were obliged to pay a migration tax of about half a dollar. The Transnistrian legislative body annulled the tax, but replaced it with a registration tax. In addition, the persons who don't reside in Transnistria have to complete a migration card.