Russia will continue to assist the authorities of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, found themselves in actual blockade from Moldova and Ukraine, said Last news on the first day of the week the head of the Federation Council international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev after the meeting with the delegation of the Supreme Council of PMR, held in the Russian capital.

"The meeting was held in a very difficult time for Republic when she is placed in conditions of blockade from Ukraine, always existing contrini regarding Transnistria from Moldova. Citizens are increasingly starting to ask questions, what will be the future of the Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublika, how the sacrifices, the suffering over the past 25 years, the residents took on its own shoulders, justified ", - said Kosachev.

He said that these questions are most important, considering coming this year, parliamentary elections and elections of the President of the PMR, which are required to complete in 2016.

"There was a keen, outspoken, I would have said, a hot exchange of views on the situation in the Republic, about the state of Affairs in the environment of the Republic, about the role in this situation can play Russia. We never gave up on his mission of good offices of a friend, a partner of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, which provides assistance to the interested in the problems of the Republic were resolved without compromising the safety of people, their wellbeing, " said Kosachev.

"This is assistance We are always the Republic has had, and mean to provide in the future," said the Senator.

Transnistria, 60% of the inhabitants are Russians and Ukrainians, sought to secede from Moldova even before the destruction of the USSR, fearing that on the wave of nationalism Moldova will join Romania. In 1992, after the failed attempt of the authorities of Moldova force to solve the problem, Transnistria was in fact not controlled by the Chisinau area.

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