Answering the question from the Vesti news presenter Maxim Kiselyov about Mikheil Saakashvili's statements concerning the alleged smuggling from Pridnestrovie to Ukraine, the Pridnestrovie's President Yevgeny Shevchuk told that he considered those statements as the elements of pressure and information war against Pridnestrovie.
The head of the Pridnestrovie's foreign policy department Nina Shtanski met with the Conflict Prevention Centre director, the deputy head of the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna Adam Kobieracki
"Under these circumstances the republic survives thanks to Russia's assistance, thanks to the concern of the Russian leadership, thanks to the protection of the Russian peacekeepers," said the president in an interview with Russian journalists
Today Russia's State Duma has hosted a meeting of Pridnestrovian President Yevgeny Shevchuk with Gennady Zyuganov, head of the Communist faction in the State Duma, a member of the science and technology committee