Russia will not leave in the lurch, the population of Transnistria And will not allow the blockade of the unrecognized Republic, said the head of the international Department of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev, speaking on the first day of the weekend in the "Right to know" on TVC channel.

" If required, will be parachuted. To prevent the blockade of Transnistria, to turn our backs on those who we believed, This is absolutely unacceptable for the Russian Federation. We will try to remove this blockade through political consensus, " the Senator said.

He said that Russia should " by all means save in the region stability, does not allow to put these people on his knees, not to give them to impose a settlement model, which will unfavorable And they will agree only because they were forced opponents ".

Answering a leading question, whether Transnistria become the second Crimea, Kosachev said that advocates the search for solutions at the current status of the region.

" Besides politics And geography. If We go for option torn territories (we are not talking about Kaliningrad), in this case, we will stop, If not the world, then, in any case, most of those countries that will stand between us. And This is the hardest design not only for the Russian Federation. This, 1st of all, the hardest design for the Transnistrian region ", - He concluded.

Transnistria, 60 percent of its inhabitants are Russians And Ukrainians sought to secede from Moldova even before the collapse of the USSR, fearing that the wave of nationalism Moldova joining Romania. In 1992, after the failed attempts of the authorities of Moldova force to solve the problem, Transnistria was in fact not controlled by the Chisinau area.

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