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Transnistria / Pridnestrovie in their own words: Transcripts from
transnistrian radio news casts:
What is Pridnestrovie
* The News, 27th November 2006. Read by Andrey Smolensky. Minister
of Information Antiufeev
has declared in an interview: Our republic has been created according
to the will of the people, who voted for autonomy within the Moldavian
Socialist Soviet Republic. Following the annihilation of the Soviet
Union we voted for a totally independent state independent from
Moldova. In September we celebrated victory for democracy in Pridnestrovie.
The people’s will was as follows: 97 percent of all Pridnestrovians
voted for independence of the Republic and for free integration
into Russia. Our ethnical und religious politicians have respected
the interests of all nations and religious groups from the beginning.
In the first days of existence, Pridnestrovie has introduced three
national languages. We have protected our independence with weapons
in our hand but we did not
allow ethnical or religious cleansings to happen. Today we are a
valid state, which guarantees its own independence alone, without
political, military or economic protective powers.
The founding of the PMR
* The News, 6th December 2006. Read by Andrey Smolensky. It was
clearly a unique event in European
history when, at the end of the 20th century, our republic was announced
according to the free will of the citizens. The Second Assembly
adopted the declaration of the establishment of the Pridnestrovian
Moldavian Socialist Soviet Republic on 2nd September 1990. The document,
which took a historical perspective to justify the adoption, also
determined the territory and boundaries of the new republic. The
creation of this new sovereign republic within the Soviet Union
was solemnly announced. Tiraspol became the capital city of the
new republic.
The declaration determined the structure of the legislative powers.
The Supreme Soviet was made up of two chambers, the Council of the
Republic and the Council of the Nationalities. The laws of Soviet
Union (then still in existence) were put in place alongside the
laws of the new republic. The declaration guaranteed free development
for all national cultures and an equal coexistence for the three
languages: Moldovan, Ukrainian, Russian. The document stressed that
the power in the republic belongs to the people. All political parties,
public institutions and movements, as well as the citizens of the
PMSSR, all bear the same rights, opportunities and responsibilities.
All citizens are equal before the law.
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