Proriv is a political youth movement and political party

Political party

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 in Transnistria

Transnistria

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 whose methods are allegedly modelled on pro-western

Western world

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 organizations Otpor

Otpor

Otpor! was a civic youth movement that existed as such from 1998 until 2003 in Serbia , employing nonviolent struggle against the regime of Slobodan Milošević as their course of action. In the course of two-year nonviolent struggle against Milosevic, Otpor spread across Serbia and attracted more...

, Kmara

Kmara

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 and other participants of colored revolutions

Color revolution

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 in the post-Soviet countries.

Originally it was founded in 2005 as a political youth organization part of the "international" (i.e. in the post-Soviet space) pro-Russian Proriv organization. A year later, on June 2, 2006, the Transnistrian branch of Proriv formally registered itself as a political party. It uses the yellow

Yellow

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 as political color and the world-known B&W

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 photo of Communist guerrilla fighter

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 Che Guevara

Che Guevara

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 as a symbol. It is associated with the 'Che Guevara High School for Political Leadership' in Tiraspol

Tiraspol

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. The 'Che Guevara High School' has been established in order to provide training for the young political activists. Its head is Dmitriy Soin, a sociologist and former officer of the Transnistrian ministry of state security

Ministry of State Security (Transnistria)

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. Roman Konoplev

Roman Konoplev

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, a well-known Russian publicist, took part in formulating ideological documents of the Party.

Chairman of the party is Aleksandr Gorelovskiy, the youth movement has a mostly slav female leadership, with Alena Arshinova

Alena Arshinova

Alena Arshinova , born March 3, 1985 in Dresden in East Germany, is a politician, model, and sociologist.Arshinova holds dual citizenship of Russia and the internationally unrecognised republic of Transnistria. From 2002 to 2007 she studied sociology at the state university of Transnistria, the T.G...

. According to newspaper reports the organisation is financed by Transnistrian authorities and the mentor of the organisation is Dmitriy Soin The organization supports the continuation of the republic's independence which was declared on September 2, 1990 and rejects any talk of potential reunification with Moldova

Moldova

Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...

.

Breakthrough has been in 2006 one of the most active forces opposing the Ukrainian presidency

Viktor Yushchenko

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 position on the Ukraine-Transnistria border customs conflict

Ukraine-Transnistria border customs conflict

The Transnistria border customs issue started on March 3, 2006, when Ukraine imposed new customs regulations on its border with Moldova on the Transnistrian region by declaring that it will only import goods from Transnistria with documents processed by Moldovan customs offices, as part of the...

 with street action and tent city protests on the border.The organisation is also very critical of the OSCE and the government

Government

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 of the Republic of Moldova. During various political demonstrations of Breakthrough OSCE flags were replaced and Moldovan flags were burned. In the 2006 Transnistrian referendum

Transnistrian referendum, 2006

The 2006 referendum in Transnistria took place in Transnistria on 17 September 2006. On that date, Transnistria voted to continue its de facto independence and seek closer ties with Russia.- Political climate :...

, it opposed unification with Moldova, as did a reported 94% of the electorate.

External links

Official website