On January 30, 2009, REGNUM News Agency ran on its website an article entitled Stockholm Syndrome: Regional Consequences of the “gas war” between Russia and Ukraine, claiming to give an analysis of the situation in Pridnestrovie and around Moldova-Pridnestrovie settlement, but the author of this material (or the person who signed the abovementioned article) so far has not achieved any success in the field of the Pridnestrovien issue.
On January 27, 2008, head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova Philip Remler came to Rybnitsa to meet with the head of Rybnitsa city administration, Yuri Platonov.
On January 26, 2009, a meeting took place between the RF MFA Ambassador-at-Large, Valeriy Nesterushkin, and the PMR Foreign Minister, Vladimir Yastrebchak, at the Pridnestrovien Foreign Office.
This year, Ukraine intends to contribute to increased dialogue on the Dniester, as the Special Representative of Ukraine for Pridnestrovien Settlement, Viktor Kryzhanovskiy, has said today in Tiraspol during his meeting with the PMR Foreign Minister, Vladimir Yastrebchak.
On January 13, some media spread alleged statement by the governor of Odessa region of Ukraine that Pridnestrovie had “siphoned natural gas”, and Pridnestrovien people had “tried to gain access to the gas measuring unit Grebeniki and open the valve”.
On January 6, 2009, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Pridnestrovien Moldavian Republic sent appeals to the Russian and Ukrainian sides, as well as to the Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova and the EU Special Representative, informing the foreign diplomats on the situation concerning cessation of natural gas supplies to Pridnestrovie, which resulted in the stoppage of hot-water supply and gradual reducing of temperatures in the heating systems.
