Moldova refuses two Russian historians entry into Transdniestria
Grigori Shkundin, Vice-President of the Russian Association of World War I historians, and Dmitry Surzhik, a Research Associate at the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Executive Secretary of the Russian-Belarusian Association of Historians "Union Initiative of Remembrance and Concord", were detained at the airport in Chisinau on the evening of November 2, according to RBC news agency.
"Four scientists from Russia were to take part in a conference, ‘The Russian Revolution of 1917 in the Fates of Transdniestria, Russia and the World: History and Modernity,’ which opened at Taras Shevchenko Transdniestria State University on November 3. Two of them were detained at the airport and, most likely, deported," Elena Bobkova, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Shevchenko Transdniestria State University (SPSU), told the agency.
According to Interfax, the press office of the Moldovan Border Police have stated that the reason for the deportation of Russian scientists was that they could not explain the purpose of their visit to Moldova.
On October 27, it was reported that Moldovan border guards expelled Russian economist Mikhail Delyagin from the country. Similarly, the reason given for the expulsion was that he could not explain the purpose of his visit. He had been invited to Moldova by the Communist Party to participate in a conference dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution.
In July, Romania closed its airspace to the aircraft of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. The Russian Deputy Prime Minister flew to Chisinau for a meeting with Moldovan President Igor Dodon.