Moscow Now Seeks to Tempt Voronin into Dissolving Parliament
Moscow Now Seeks to Tempt Voronin into Dissolving Parliament

Summary/Abstract: Moscow is using the negotiations on resolving the Transnistria conflict as a means to weaken Moldova’s political system. This is a collateral goal of the negotiating channel run by Security Council Deputy Secretary Yuri Zubakov with core members of the Moldovan presidential team. Moscow’s specific proposals through this channel to change Moldova’s political system -- ostensibly in order to facilitate a Transnistria settlement -- contravene Moldova’s constitution. The Russian side now seeks to tempt Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin into dissolving the parliament and changing or breaching the constitution for the sake of a settlement that seems illusory in any case.

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