Escaladarea conflictelor regionale în spațiul post-sovietic. Cazul conflictului transnistrean / Escalation of regional conflicts in the post-Soviet space. The case of the Transnistrian conflict

Abstract

The last decade of the twentieth century was marked by a geopolitical event with long-lasting effects - the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. One of the „poles” of the bipolar system of international relations has completely disappeared, and its fragments have begun to move in different directions - the independent states of the post-Soviet space have begun to form. Thus, the adaptation of the independent states from the post-Soviet space to the new geopolitical realities and the determination of their own political and external development vector began. At the same time, nationalist forces intensified and political tensions increased, leading to regional conflicts, especially in the vast Black Sea basin. At the end of 1991, the chronology of a new geopolitical reality of the post-Soviet space begins, and regional conflicts are the most intense expression of the crisis facing the countries of the post-Soviet space. Against the background of the disintegration of the USSR, the formation of new geopolitical realities in the post-Soviet space, and domestic policies within the MSSR, the political confrontation between Chisinau and Tiraspol began in the 1990s, which escalated into an armed conflict during 1991-1992. Therefore, the article proposes a factual and chronological reconstruction of the development of political processes and events on the edge of the Transnistrian conflict, which took place between 1990 and 1992.

Keywords

• the transnistrian conflict
• chisinau
• tiraspol
• ussr
• 14th army