Shevchuk: Economics TMR at release will quickly become self-sufficient

Economy of Transnistria in the event of a release could be self-sufficient for three to five years, said the head of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan Republic (PMR) Yevgeny Shevchuk.

As explained Shevchuk, in an interview to the magazine, " ", announced on the first day of the week, the economic problems in Transnistria has arisen due to the fact that the state is not recognized, and most of the economic opportunities of the Republic just blocked Moldova.

now Russia has Transnistria support, for example in the area of ensuring socially vulnerable residents. The head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov has in the past expressed indignation at the fact that the West is crawling with total silence real blockade of Transnistria Chisinau and Kiev in terms of movement, transit, foreign economic activity.

"Our calculations show that if to relieve the Transnistrian economy, then it will go on for three to five years with little investment can go to the state of self-sufficiency," said Shevchuk.

Transnistria, 60% of the population are Russians and Ukrainians, sought to secede from Moldova even before the destruction of the USSR, fearing that the wave of nationalism Moldova joining Romania. In 1992, after failed attempts by the authorities of Moldova force to solve the problem, Transnistria was in fact beyond the control of the Chisinau area. PMR is located between Moldova and Ukraine.


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