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    Moldova’s separatist Transdniestria region reduces blackouts By Reuters

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    (Reuters) – Authorities in Moldova’s separatist Transdniestria region said on Saturday that energy conservation measures have allowed them to ease restrictions caused by a halt to Russian gas supplies, with the duration of rolling blackouts to be further reduced.

    Moldova’s pro-European central government renewed its criticism of Russia, saying it caused the energy crisis and now wants to portray itself as the power that was coming to the separatist region’s rescue.

    Transdniestria, which split from Moldova at the end of Soviet rule, has relied on Russian gas shipped through Ukraine. Authorities in Ukraine, locked in a 34-month-old conflict with Russia, refused to extend a transit deal into 2025.

    Russian gas giant Gazprom (MCX:) has said it will not send the gas to Moldova along alternative routes, citing what it describes as Moldovan arrears of $709 million. Moldova, which denounces Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, disputes that figure.

    Transdniestria’s pro-Russian leaders, reporting on the region’s official Telegram channel, said daily rolling blackouts would be reduced to three hours on Sunday. The power cuts, eight hours long earlier this week, were cut to five hours on Friday.

    “With current super efficiencies in consumption, Transdniestria has enough gas until the end of January,” the channel quoted First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Obolonik as saying.

    Many factories have switched to night shifts, when the power grid is under less strain, but authorities said one plant, a cement manufacturer in the town of Rybnitsa, closed down.

    A steel mill of critical importance to the region also closed in the city.

    Russian gas supplied to the separatist region powered a thermal plant which provided electricity both for Transdniestria and most of the needs of government-held regions.

    MOLDOVA HOLDS RUSSIA RESPONSIBLE 

    The press secretary of Moldova’s central government, Daniel Voda, said suggestions that Russia might relent and eventually send gas to Transdniestria do not alter Moscow’s responsibility for the energy crisis.

    “Every time that Russia wants to show its might, it cuts off vital resources and turns people into hostages,” Voda told the media outlet Nokta.

    “This is an experiment using people that shows that Moscow is not worried about residents’ comfort and security. … No one deserves to live in fear and in the cold.”

    Moldova’s government has accused Russia of artificially creating the energy crisis to destabilise the country ahead of this summer’s parliamentary election. It has offered to help Transdniestria tackle the power shortages, but the separatist region’s leaders deny receiving any official proposals.

    Moldovan President Maia Sandu has said Gazprom could supply gas to Transdniestria via an alternative route, the Turkstream pipeline through Turkey and then Bulgaria and Romania.

    Transdniestria fought a brief war against Moldovan government forces in 1992 and still hosts 1,500 Russian soldiers on the tiny territory that neighbours Ukraine.





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