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Abstract: After 900 days of interim, in March 2012, the Republic of Moldova has succeeded in getting a President. Due to this harsh period of time, mentioned above for the Moldavian political arena, the events from Transnistria seemed that have been almost, ignored. In this, self-proclaimed republic, have taken place parliamentary and presidential elections, and the most important, Igor Smirnov has lost the presidency. The aim of this paper is not to establish a series of scenarios that suppose to follow the election of the 45-year old leader in the breakaway republic, but to embed the relations of this controversial political actor, as Transnistria is, with Kishinev, Moscow, or Brussels. "5+2" meetings for the conflict's resolution were resumed, where many actors have been implied, while the political environment from Transnistria is being watched very carefully by EU, Russian Federation, United States or other political actors.
Key words: Transnistria, Republic of Moldova, 5+2, Shevchuk, Smirnov, Russia
Until the successful election of the President of the Republic of Moldova in March 2012, the political environment from Kishinev has been submitted for over 900 days to the instability caused by the interims of this function. The economic objectives have been doubled by the election at Kishinev of a full right president and these have been the main concerns both of the internal and the external press. However, in this paper I wish to deal with what has been regarded as marginal lately, namely the political situation in Transnistria. During the whole period of the political crisis in Kishinev, important parliamentary and presidential elections have taken place in Tiraspol as well-even if they have only been recognized at the level of the self-proclaimed republic. The outcome of the presidential elections is the more spectacular that, for the first time, from the proclamation of independence, Igor Smirnov has no longer been supported by Russia, managing only to rank third in the first election round, which dropped him out of the competition. Moreover, his family is now in conflict with the Russian authorities because of evidence of embezzlement of some funds allocated to Russia in form of aids for the Trans-Dniester population. It would be still premature to pronounce on the later evolution of these elections, the aim of this...