Moldova: Update to the July 1993 Q & A Series: Moldova: Internal Flight Alternatives; on whether there are barriers preventing people travelling from the Dniester Moldovan Republic to other regions of the country (January 1998 - January 1999)
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 January 1999 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | MDA30864.E |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Moldova: Update to the July 1993 Q & A Series: Moldova: Internal Flight Alternatives; on whether there are barriers preventing people travelling from the Dniester Moldovan Republic to other regions of the country (January 1998 - January 1999), 1 January 1999, MDA30864.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ab6e8e.html [accessed 22 May 2023] |
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The Winter 1998 issue of the East European Constitutional Review states:
As in the 1994 parliamentary elections, Transnistrian authorities refused to allow the opening of polling stations in Transnistria [during the March 1998 parliamentary elections]. The CEC [Central Electoral Commission of Moldova] provided voting facilities on the right side of the Nistru for those of Transnistria's 390,000 Moldovan citizens who were willing to make the trip. The Transnistrian authorities promised to allow voters to move freely across the river. On election day, however, separatists prevented Transnistrian voters from casting ballots by refusing to allow 22 buses carrying voters to cross the frontier into government-controlled territory. Thirteen polling stations had been set up to accommodate Trans-Dniester residents. Roughly 10,000 of the 450,000 eligible Dniestr voters reached the polling stations (24, 25).
No additional information on barriers preventing people travelling from the Dniester Moldovan Republic to other regions of Moldova could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of additional sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
Reference
East European Constitutional Review [Chicago]. Winter 1998. Vol. 7, No. 1. "Moldova."
Additional Sources Consulted
Electronic sources: IRB databases, Internet, NEXIS/LEXIS, REFWORLD, WNC.
Transitions [Prague]. January 1998 - October 1998.
Resource Centre country file on Moldova. January 1998 - January 1999.
Unsuccessful attempts to contact oral sources.
