Putin's IBS<p>The Prime Minister said that <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Moldova" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Moldova</span></a> would not block gas supplies. A <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Hungarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hungarian</span></a> company will supply gas to <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transnistria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transnistria</span></a>, paid for by a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Dubai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dubai</span></a> company.</p><p>In exchange for continued gas supply, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Tiraspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tiraspol</span></a> would have to free political prisoners, keep broadcasting a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Moldovan_TV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Moldovan_TV</span></a> channel, and dismantle the entrance checkpoints they put up in 2022.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> benefits from having as many destabilization points as it can afford. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transnistria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transnistria</span></a> is one of them, and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> will not give it up easily.</p>