Nikolay Babilunga: “Work with compatriots has to be system!”

The known political scientist and the historian, the head of the Department of patriotic history of Institute of State and Law of the Dniestr State University, professor Nikolay Babilunga estimated the work on communications with compatriots in Russia on the example of the Dniestr Moldavian republic at our request:

- If to speak in the most general terms, I would estimate all concept of policy of Russia on communications with compatriots at the lowest level in general. Disorder of the Soviet Union which Putin called as “the largest geopolitical accident of XX century” became the unimaginable tragedy in life of the vast majority of families of the former USSR.

Without leaving own apartments, without leaving anywhere, people at once became either the aliens or semi-citizens, or pursued by the language and ethnic principle law-abiding inhabitants of almost all “republics sisters”. Russia undertook nothing on an extent of more than 20 years, did very little to improve the matters of the Russians who became “strangers”, “invaders”, “migrants”, “mankurts”, etc. at will of a small group of politicians.

The known Moldavian poet, modern “classic”, the winner of an award of Lenin Komsomol Grigory Vieru wrote own appeals of such type in the newspaper in 1989 - “If the Russian asks for you a piece of bread, give him a piece of dynamite”. Let's hold back what “engineers of human souls” in Baltic, Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan wrote, what the Chechens did with the Russians … Practically Russia threw the sons, having facilitated nothing their situation, without rescuing any of them. The Russians became one of the few divided nations in the world. 25 million people, actually the considerable European power, appeared outside the territorial frontiers of the ethnoses.

I am not sure, whether there will be now in Russia though one family which wouldn't have “relatives abroad”, without speaking about close acquaintances, friends and so forth. And if in Soviet period only some Jewish or German families of the Russian citizens had the relatives abroad, now all have them! It isn't simple “the largest geopolitical accident”, but the greatest personal tragedy of millions not guilty people who have been violently deprived of the Fatherland by group of the state criminals, remained unpunished owing to a number of external circumstances.

The party and ethnic clans who came to the power in the republics took all national wealth of the lands in the hands and doomed the main part of the people to slow extinction and bitter destiny of guest workers (almost entirely illegal). People who under the influence of the national ideologists shouted “Suitcase! Station! Russia!” also who arranged the riots under the slogans “Let's drown the Russians in Jewish blood!”, “Russians out of Dniestr, Jews to Dniestr!” nowadays go and send the children to Russia damned by them to build the toilets to “new Russians”. It would seem the justice triumphed? They got everything they want?

By no means! Russia pushed away from itself those sincere supporters and patriots who didn't think their life without this Fatherland. The bureaucracy subjected to mockeries and marauding those unfortunate families which looked for rescue in Russia from riots and excesses of “national revival” of those republics where they were thrown by destiny. They took bribes from them, they were smothered by laws on nationality, they were clean out, removing the last, exhausting in backwoods, depriving of professions, social protection, pensions, medical care, education, etc. And after all everything could be solved easily, logically and simply, if the governors of Russia of that time had the political will.

If as the right successor of the USSR Russia would provide the right to keep the nationality to all citizens the USSR who was born in the territory of the Soviet Union to Bialowieza agreements if they wish that. Here, actually, that’s all. And then to interrupt any economic relations, to enter embargo and the high customs duties for those countries which don't observe the rights of the Russian citizens, don't observe human rights as those? To sell the gas and oil at the European prices to them. Needs must when the devil drives; may be the Ukrainians wouldn't began to erect monuments to the professional executioner and the Russophobe Bandera and to other fascists and Georgia wouldn't began to destroy memorials to heroes of the Great Patriotic War, and Estonia and Latvia provided the nationality to a half of the population, i.e. to “the Russian-speaking aliens” and Moldova would beware to destroy own peace population in Transnistria, to erect round it economic, financial, legal, information and other blockades. But it everything about the past. Now about the present.

The Russian embassy in the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic can't normally work as Moldova forbids to open consulate in Tiraspol. Thus very jealously also watches that Russia didn't dare to take and a step to consulate opening in spite of the fact that not less than a third of the population of Transnistria have the Russian nationality. I don't say that in 2006 the referendum took place in Transnistria on which more than 96% of the population (including the Ukrainians, Moldavians, Bulgarians, etc.) supported strengthening of ties with Russia and whenever possible inclusions in its structure.

For the solution of the household issues, registration of visas and so forth, the inhabitants of Transnistria should go to Kishinev in embassy of Russia, to stand in queues moreover and to suffer indignity and retaliations from officials and police of Moldova which fine these people for non-execution of laws of Moldova about registration of foreigners, violation of the rules of stay of foreign citizens in Moldova. Though these people have no relation neither to Moldova nor to its laws, its officials because they live and work in other state - PMR. Opening of the Russian consulate in Transnistria is a task not only purely humanitarian (to facilitate and simplify the life of the ordinary person, the citizen of Russia), but also geopolitical.

Annually from Moldova (including Transnistria) to Romania some thousand people go for study, to the Romanian higher education institutions, colleges, lyceums and so forth where they for the state account, i.e. at the expense of certain charity foundations, it isn't known from where they appeared in poor Romania, are trained, live, pass the corresponding psychological and ideological brainwash in the spirit of ideas of an aggressive Romanizm and come back home after several years of training in full confidence that all of them belong to the great uniform Romanian nation existing since Jesus Christ - the lineal heir of an antique Roman civilization. And “Moldavians” were invented by the Russian tsars and Bolsheviks, immemorial barbarians and enemies of the Romanian unity.

For quarter of the century this washing passed about 60 thousand inhabitants of Moldova who nowadays participate in political life of the country. It is now difficult to find the official in Moldova who wouldn't be trained in Romania and for reliability didn't pass training in any West European centre. For comparison: about hundred entrants annually go to Russia from Moldova and PMR for study. After graduating from the higher education institution they, as a rule, remain to live in the Russia because they have nothing to do in Moldova, they don't see here any prospects for themselves. The Romanian funds and the government watches attentively “successes” of the graduates in Moldova, helping them with advance, financially supporting and directly financing various Russophobic editions, the pro-Romanian channels of radio and TV, the newspaper, magazines, Internet sites. It is the system! It is calculated on the future. Russia has no similar system. By and large, it supports a little the pro-Russian parties and movements, politicians, cultural figures, science and arts.

I don't want to tell that nothing is doing in this direction - as in rough 90th years. It is not so! And embassy of Russia in Kishinev, both the Russian World fund and “Rossotrudnichestvo”, and the relevant committees of the State Duma and Interregional fund “Centre of National Glory”, the Moscow house of the compatriot, the Government of Moscow and the Government of St. Petersburg, Priznaniye fund, Historical Memory fund, both many other organizations and funds carry out now a lot of work on communications with compatriots many of whom didn't live till present blessed times, having passed away in the crude earth at home or in the foreign land.

On my memory the conferences “One on all … To the 65 anniversary of the Great Victory over fascism”, “The Moldavian statehood and democracy after overcoming of political crisis. Future of the Russian-Moldavian relations”, “Russia and Moldova: modernization calls”, “1812 in destinies of Russia and Moldova” and many, many others were held. Undoubtedly, they became the important sign events in political and scientific life of Moldova. But I would be too optimistic if told that they can change substantially a situation in Moldova in favour of compatriots in the favourable direction for Russia and as a whole in interests of the population living in Moldova and first of all, the Moldavians.

The most popular politician in Moldova is a president of Russia V.V.Putin. But the political class of Moldova is incited both against Russia and against the majority of the own population, aimed at violent accession of Moldova to Romania that means the potential danger of new public cataclysms and new bloodshed. Will Russia manage to stop slipping of Moldova on new boundaries of a civil slaughter, is not clear. The only thing is clear: Russia doesn't suffice predictability, hardness and sequence in upholding of the interests, in work with compatriots. And the main thing - it suffices the system, reasonableness for decades forward.