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Russia should not stay aside from this situation because nearly 220,000 Russian citizens live in the country, pundits underscore

The "5+2" negotiating format has worked for 15 years and this is a working venue for seeking compromises between Moldova and Pridnestrovie, Boris Shapovalov said in an interview with Sputnik

Political expert commented to Russia's Sputnik on whether it is necessary to change the peacekeeping fomat in the region

According to the foreign minister, Vitaly Ignatyev, Moldova has been given ample opportunity to further stall the negotiating process at all levels and organise new measures of pressure on the PMR

The subject of the deportation of Pridnestrovie's representative to Russia will be a focus of the next meeting of the political representatives of Moldova and Pridnestrovie, Vitaly Ignatyev has promised

President comments on the Moldova's ban on entrance into the republic for the guests from Russia, South Ossetia, Abkhazia going to Pridnestrovie on the Republic Day

The ministry has noted that a number of foreign guests going to Pridnestrovie have been recently refused entry to the country by the Moldovan border police

Moldova is continuing to escalate the situation around Pridnestrovie and under these circumstances we need to protect our statehood, underscored the president

The president commented on the accusation by a Moldovan MP against the Pridnestrovian leadership of attempts to privatise the land in the Security Zones belonging Moldovan farmers

Ukrainian and Moldovan prime ministers are scheduled to meet in Odessa in September

"Russia is a guarantor in the '5+2' negotiating process and, in fact, could represent the interests of Pridnestrovie in the UN," the president told Russia's Parliamentary Gazette

According to Vitaly Ignatyev, if Moldova wanted to improve its relationship with Pridnestrovie, the best way to do that would be "specific, practical work at each level of the negotiating process aimed at improving the lives of people" rather than undermining the peacekeeping operation

Vasily Nebenzya has called Moldova's decision "rather unfriendly and quite unexpected"

Bendery's OSCE office has been the host of today's meeting of the political representatives of Pridnestrovie and Moldova

According to Vitaly Ignatyev, this unilateral measure violates both agreements and mechanisms of the negotiating process, and Pridnestrovie's stance on this issue is simply ignored