Fireworks. Archive photoTIRASPOL, Apr 29The authorities of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, in connection with the introduced «red» level of terrorist threat, banned the use of fireworks and pyrotechnics, the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the PMR said. «One of the additional measures aimed at ensuring security, preventing and suppressing possible terrorist manifestations is a ban on the use of salutes , fireworks and other pyrotechnics,» the message says. It is noted that restrictive measures apply to both individuals and legal entities (regardless of the form of ownership). Violators will be brought to administrative responsibility under the article «Violation of peace of citizens and silence.» The sanction of the article provides for the imposition of administrative fines. In Pridnestrovie, on Monday and Tuesday, three terrorist attacks took place — in the building of the Ministry of State Security of the PMR in Tiraspol, near a military unit near the village of Parkany and on the tower of a radio and television center near the village of Mayak. A «red» level of terrorist threat has been introduced in the republic. The Investigative Committee of Pridnestrovie opened criminal cases under the article «terrorist act committed by a group of persons using firearms.» On Wednesday, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic confirmed that shots were fired from the Ukrainian side in the direction of the village of Kolbasna, where military depots are located. President of the unrecognized PMR Vadim Krasnoselsky said that the traces of the organizers of the explosions in Transnistria lead to Ukraine. Transnistria, 60% of whose inhabitants are Russians and Ukrainians, sought secession from Moldova even before the collapse of the USSR, fearing that Moldova would join Romania on the wave of nationalism. In 1992, after a failed attempt by the Moldovan authorities to solve the problem by force, Transnistria became a territory that was actually not controlled by Chisinau. Transnistria
