From Bratislava to Bratislava – The Regulation Process of the Transnistrian Conflict is sliding back to Years 2002-2003 - Tăbârță, Ion (IDIS VIITORUL Institutul pentru Dezoltare şi Initiative Sociale, 2019)
The accession to the government of PSRM, a political party with strong pro-Russian tendencies and which has openly stated more than once in the past that it is in the favor of achieving the settlement of the Transnistrian conflict through the federalization of the Republic of Moldova, has increased Russia’s influence in the political processes taking place in Chisinau. At the same time, the PSRM government, concentrated around President Igor Dodon, generated suppositions that in the near future we could expect the signing of a document which would regulate the Transnistrian conflict. These assumptions were fueled by the failed attempts to sign the Protocol of in the "5+2" format reunion on October 9-10, 2019 in Bratislava, and at the 8th Conference on strengthening the confidence in the Transnistrian conflict settlement process which took place in Munich on November 4-5, 2019. The belief the public space it was that the draft protocol could lead to the de fact federalization of the Republic of Moldova. The rumor in the political backstage was that the protocol was blocked by former Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration, Vasile Șova, but also by the uncompromising position of not accepting this protocol and which was assumed by the former Prime Minister of the government, Maia Sandu