Politics
Politics

Summary/Abstract: This April – May we have observed some revival on the political arena of Chisinau. This trend will become more intense towards autumn, as a result of the preparatory works for the 2007 local elections. The political parties will be also affected by the election fever, thinned down by seasonal intermittent discords in the context of political cooperation lacking reciprocity. Meanwhile, the national economy will experience the fi rst signs of a cyclic crisis, apparently provoked by the trade embargo imposed by Russia, the real reason being the stagnation of structural internal reforms and the low quality of the decision making process. The slow down of economic growth coincides with the effects of the export restrictions, but is not determined exclusively by this factor. The Government decisions are vegetative; they just react to the crises produced on a regular basis and all this due to the fact that state administration modernization process is carried out only on papers. Even though no big changes are loomed within the regulation process of Transnistrian confl ict, today it is already evident that the fi rst EU monitoring mission at the Moldovan - Ukrainian border has created on the regional level a new paradigm of Western involvement in the regulation of frozen confl icts. Except for Russia, no other stakeholder involved in the territory tolerates the current status quo of the secessionist regime through which Smirnov’s administration became the offi cial recipient of Russian fi nancial transfers, - a fact that confi rms once again the annexionist character of Putin’s policy towards Moldova. Neither EU nor USA can admit the maintenance of the break-away regime even for the sake of diplomatic reverences towards Russia. The G8 summit from Sankt Petersburg revealed a new stage within the relationship between Russia and the West: from the stage of platonic love towards pragmatic realism of the integration of the Russian energy system into the world economy.

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