- You cannot be pessimist till now, because we have been living in these conditions for ten years and being pessimistic till now is somehow ridiculous. Nevertheless the conflict should be solved starting with the respect shown towards human rights. It doesn’t matter when it will be solved, maybe now, maybe in ten or twenty years, but firstly we have to respect the human rights, otherwise we get what we have today – a form of apartheid, because practically in today’s situation, if speaking about the problem with our children, our Moldavian school, it looks like this: Russian children have very good conditions and have the right to everything and vice versa our children practically have no right and find themselves in such a situation when all the information, the press, the school books are in Russian and they don’t have any right. Take into account the modality of solving the problem with the schools: the Romanian ones are withdrawn outside the city. If we go back to the way that this problem should be solved then first of all they should begin with taking into account the human rights. This is the main principle that is a universal one from which should one start and it is this principle could be a good start of solving the conflict, otherwise you see they negotiate different problems that lead to nothing at all. Almost nobody assumes responsibility and it would be normal to begin with the human rights.
I.M. – How do mediators seem to you?
M.S. – Mediators, well we have tried to attract the embassies of Russia and Ukraine, we addressed several times to them, but no official answer came back. When they had come, they tried to present this conflict we have with the local authorities, they have tried to present it as a local conflict with a local importance and not as human rights violation as we have tried to present the information. As in regard to OSCE, as a mediator, yes, they try all the possibilities but again not beginning with a certain principle. They are just mediators since they do not involve in this with some consultations or something else. When I have mentioned this form of apartheid I meant there should be more than one international body to monitor the whole situation. OSCE – is just a mediator in our problem, but the problem is much more complicated, it has deeper roots than it shows. If we go back in the times that passed not so long ago, when Soviet Union still existed, everything that has been created here, all these big cities, everything has been created as a condition for a long lasting ethnicity. If let’s say all the surrounding villages are Romanian than we have a Russian population. Though we have got many documents against apartheid, they had good salaries, apartments etc and there has a form of apartheid in our case too, when 60% of the inhabitants of Gigorovca were Romanian, but the leaders in the government were chosen only Russians or any other nationality but Moldavians. And even if Moldavians got to the government they are just installed there to continue this kind of governing further on. That is why what we have today is nothing else but a prolongation of the politics led by the Soviet Union. There’s nothing new in the fact that we have been marginalized, it is just a prolongation on the Soviet Union’s politics. That is why it would be really good for us if the international organizations monitored this thing.