Moldova has declared Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin persona non grata due to his recent statements to a state-owned Russian news channel.
Transnistria, a region with a predominantly ethnically Russian and Ukrainian population, is a self-proclaimed republic that seceded from the Soviet Republic of Moldova in 1990, fearing possible reunion with Romania.
Russian Federation maintains a 1,200-strong military force in Trannistria although Moldova has repeatedly called for it to be replaced with global peacekeepers.
"Such precarious actions are irresponsible steps aimed at a deliberate undermining of bilateral Russian-Moldovan relations and may have a serious destabilising effect on the general situation in the region and in Europe as a whole", the Russian ministry said in a press release.
"I don't know if the government is acting on its own account or, more likely, is being controlled like a puppet from across the ocean".
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Taking into account that statements made by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin affect the image of our country, both externally and internally, it was chose to declare Rogozin an undesirable person on the territory of the Republic of Moldova with a ban on transit and entry into our country. He will be banned from entering the country and passing through its territory.
Mr Rogozin, an outspoken Russian nationalist, was furious when Romania barred his plane from its airspace last Friday, as he tried in vain to reach Moldova on a planned trip to its Moscow-backed separatist area of Transdniestria.
"Rogozin is an official who represents the Russian authorities, the Russian government", said first deputy head of the State Duma Committee for International Relations, MP Dmitry Novikov (Communist Party), according to RIA Novosti.
He is banned from the European Union for supporting Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. Before World War I, it was part of Tsarist Russia. Moldova has repeatedly called for it to be replaced with worldwide peacekeepers. Russian is also widely spoken.
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