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unusual facts about Frunză, Transnistria


Pavel Tcacenco

Yakov Antipov was born in the village of Novosavitskaya (nowadays part of the unrecognized Trans-Dniester Republic) to Yakov Antipov, a railway worker, and Smaragda Dimitrievna.


2002–03 FC Vaslui season

The pioneering team consisted of Cristian Brăneț in goal, defenders Cătălin Popa, Sorin Haraga, Cătălin Andruş and Robert Stamate, midfielders Adrian Popa, Emil Trăistariu, Sorin Sava and Sorin Frunză, with Flavius Hâdă and Valentin Badea in attack, while Dumitran, Marcel Atănăsoaiei, Alin Pânzaru, Emanuel Amarandei and Radu Ciobanu were substituted in during the game.

Alene Nikolayev

She heads the Tiraspol-based Union of Bulgarians in Pridnestrovie, also known as the Historical and Human Rights Center of Bulgaria in Transnistria.

Anti-Romanian discrimination

Even Igor Smirnov himself, current leader of the separatist regime of Transnistria, was sent in 1987 from Russia to Bender to be the director of an enterprise.

Batushansky

Although there is no place named Batushany, a number of populated places with similar names exist, including Botoşani in Romania's region of Moldavia and the village of Butuceni in the self-proclaimed Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic in the Republic of Moldova.

On the other hand, Botoşani was beyond Russian Empire's borders, while Butuceni (and all of Transnistria) became part of Russia's Pale of Settlement since Russo-Turkish war of 1792.

Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov

It was rejected however, but the 1943 composition (with different lyrics) became the national anthem of Transnistria in the 1990s.

Galina Antyufeyeva

Galina Mikhailovna Antyufeyeva (Cyrillic: Галина Михáйловна Антюфéева) is a Transnistrian politician and the wife of the country's Minister for National Security, Vladimir Antyufeyev.

Grigoriopol transmitter

The Grigoriopol transmitter (Russian designation: Mayak Radio Centre) is a very large broadcasting facility situated near Maiac in Transnistria (Moldova), at the border with Ukraine.

Ilie Cazac

Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat said Igor Smirnov, Transnistria's separatist leader, freed Cazac as a result of ongoing negotiations about Moldova and Transnistria that include officials from Russia, the United States and the European Union.

Intercentre Lux

The company owns two factories in Tiraspol and one in Dubossary, as well as retail outlets in all major towns and cities of Transnistria.

Ivan Călin

Călin was born in the small village of Plopi in the north of Transnistria, in Rîbniţa sub-district, then in Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

Mafia state

According to the program, the trade was controlled by and benefited from Transnistria's founder and then-ruler Igor Smirnov.

Nadezhda Bondarenko

Nadezhda Bondarenko (Cyrillic: Наде́жда Бондаре́нко, born 19 October 1950 in Ivanovo, Russian SFSR) is a politician in Transnistria and a candidate for President in the 2006 election for the Pridnestrovie Communist Party and the Communist Party of Pridnestrovie.

Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic

In a meeting in October, Associate Chair of the Presidium of the Moldovan Supreme Soviet, Victor Puşcaş, in the presence of Communist Party First Secretary, Semion Grossu, berated local communists for losing control of the situation in Transnistria.

Romanian Orthodox Church

In December 2007 Russian Duma United Russia’s MP Konstantin Zatulin accused the Romanian Orthodox Church of “proselytism” against the Russian Orthodox Church in Moldova (and Transnistria) with the aim of annexing these territories into Romania.

Transnistrian border customs issues

From February 1996 to 2001, there was an agreement between Moldovan and Transnistrian authorities, according to which PMR (Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic) export and import goods were not subject to Moldovan taxes, PMR was granted the right to use the customs seal of the Republic of Moldova on its goods, and PMR agreed to establish joint customs centers with Moldova on the border with Ukraine.

Transnistria's Minister of Economy, Elena Chernenko, says that Transnistria loses $2–2.5 million daily from the Ukrainian regulations.

Transnistrian presidential election, 2006

Three candidates registered to run besides the incumbent Smirnov: Bender MP for the Renewal party Peter Tomaily, Pridnestrovie Communist Party candidate Nadezhda Bondarenko and journalist Andrey Safonov.

Vasiliy Tishenko

Vasiliy Vasilievich Tishenko is the mayor of Slobodzya and the head of the Slobodzya district administration in southern Transnistria.

Vladimir Antyufeyev

Vladimir Antyufeyev (Cyrillic: Владимир Антюфéев), also known under the assumed name Vladimir Shevtsov (born 19 February 1951 in Novosibirsk, Russia) was the head of the Ministry of State Security of unrecognized Transnistria (September 8, 1992 - January 17, 2012).

Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Mironov

He participated in several late- and post-Soviet conflicts including events in Transnistria, Gerorgia, The Georgean-Ossetian conflict and the First Chechen War, where he fought in the rank of Captain.


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