Vladimir Voronin is the newly elected President of Moldova. Member of the Communist Party.
Vladimir Voronin
He was sworn in for a second term on Thursday, the 7th April, promising to take the ex-Soviet state closer to Europe and out of Russia's shadow.
Voronin stated "European friends" would help rid the rebel Dnestr region of "primitive and humiliating regime" that has left the tiny,
agricultural country split since Dnestr broke away in 1990.
The government needs to overhaul its agriculture-based economy and raise living standards to
be able start talks on closer ties with the EU, analysts say.
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-And, imo, I think EU will appreciate the possibility of being able to help one of the poorest countries to establish an economical sustainability,
which would allow 1 million moldovans to return home to find work there.
Some would perhaps call this President "an unreliable politician", since he got elected the first time, four years ago, on rethorics that would
bring Moldova closer to Russia.
My belief is that he is a good politician that played his cards right, to get in position so he could steer Moldova, his country, into a democratic
republic, like it has happened in Georgia and Ukraina. Using those examples, we can only conclude that it is not easy to sucessfully do a
velvet-revolution...
Some years has passed, and Russia did not follow through the OSCE-treaty
(The 1999 OSCE Istanbul
Summit Decisions on Moldova and Georgia: Prospects for Implementation), and Voronin now openly denounces the presence of 1,200(?) Russian
peacekeeping(?) troops in the
Russian-speaking Dnestr region, which fought a brief war with the newly-independent Moldovan state in 1992.
His views and rethorics had in last month's parliamentary election changed, and he relied heavily on anti-Russian rhetoric.
Imo, this is of course a rather natural approach, since the negotiations between OSCE and Tiraspols separatist administration broke down.
Referendum of negotiations prior to the end of negotiations:
Sept. 5th. 2003-April 29th. 2004
This DOES NOT mean that Vorinin & Co. doesn't talk to Putin. Infact they might have very good connections, but due to Putins problems in Checnya, He
has no manpower to clean up the terrorists that has stayed behind in Transdniestr. (Putin transfers law enforcement personnel from Sibiria to fight in
Checnya). He has neither expressed joy over Moldovas independence from the old Sovietunion.
To figure out a solution to the whole stalemate situation, it seems natural to make a cooperation between Russia, EU and Moldova
(Politically/Military). The main problem is the not so small regime in Transdniestr. They have the guns, and has dug down. Even if Russia says openly
and officially;
"Go home, thy job is done", I doubt many of the Transdniestrian highway-taxcollectors leaves their well established foxholes
unarmed. Because, where would they/could they go?
