Passers-by near the building of the Government of Moldova in Chisinau. File photoMOSCOW, May 1.The Moldovan authorities did not let a RIA Novosti correspondent who was heading to Pridnestrovie to cover the situation in the region enter the country. At passport control at the Chisinau airport on Saturday evening, Moldovan border guards examined the luggage of the agency's correspondent Artur Shaikhutdinov and took away his passport. The reason was the lack of accreditation of the Moldovan Foreign Ministry. «They did not give me my passport, they sent me to wait in the transit zone. The border guard said that the passport would be given to the commander of the aircraft upon departure from Chisinau,» the journalist said. The correspondent also said that he was taken to the plane in a designated bus, separate from other passengers. His documents were sealed in an envelope and given to the crew, who would return them only after landing in Istanbul. The correspondent has already left. On Friday, it became known that the Moldovan authorities also did not let the Izvestia cameraman and correspondent into the country. The operator was refused due to «lack of return tickets», and the correspondent was accused of planning a trip to Ukraine.Yesterday, 11:04AM TAPE livePlans of Poland and Romania, aggravation in Transnistria, exercises near the borders of RFIn the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldavian Republic, three terrorist attacks occurred earlier — 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 Transnistria opened criminal cases under the article «a terrorist attack committed by a group of persons using firearms.» The President of the unrecognized PMR, Vadim Krasnoselsky, said that the traces of the organizers of the explosions in Transnistria lead to Ukraine. The Russian Federation stated that it condemns attempts to involve Transnistria in what is happening in Ukraine, while the situation on the left bank of the Dniester is reliably controlled by peacekeepers. Transnistria, 60% of whose inhabitants are Russians and Ukrainians , sought secession from Moldova even before the collapse of the USSR, fearing that, on the wave of nationalism, Moldova would join Romania. In 1992, after a failed attempt by the Moldovan authorities to solve the problem by force, Pridnestrovie became virtually a territory not controlled by Chisinau.
