Flag of Transnistria

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Flag of Transnistria
front side
Flag of Transnistria (state) .svg
Vexillological symbol : Vexillological symbol
Aspect ratio: 1: 2
Officially accepted: July 25, 2000

The flag of the de facto regime Transnistria was officially set in a law of July 25, 2000. It is identical to the flag of the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic used from 1952 to 1990 .

description

1: 2 ? Civic flag and backCivic flag and commercial flag Back of a flag

The flag shows two horizontal red stripes, which are separated in the middle by a green stripe. The width of the green stripe is a quarter of the flag width. The flag has an aspect ratio of 1: 2.

On the service flag in the Gösch hammer and sickle are shown in yellow within an (imaginary) square, the length of which is one fifth of the width of the flag . Above is a yellow-framed five-pointed red star . Both symbols were also featured on the flag of the Soviet Union and its Union republics.

A variant without the Soviet symbols (hammer, sickle and star) is used as the civil flag. The back of the official flag also consists only of the green, red and green stripes.

history

In the course of the collapse of the Soviet Union , a phase of nationalization began in the Moldovan SSR from 1988, during which the government in Chișinău declared, among other things, the Moldovan language to be the only state language of the MSSR in 1989 . This led to conflict with the Transnistria and Gagauzia areas, where pro-Soviet forces were in the majority. These were particularly opposed to a potential reunification with Romania .

After the tricolor based on the Romanian flag was introduced as the new flag of Moldova in April 1990 , numerous cities in Transnistria refused to hoist it and kept the previous flag of the Moldovan SSR with the Soviet symbols. With the unilateral declaration of independence from Moldova, Transnistria (initially as a self-proclaimed Soviet republic) also took over the flag of the Moldovan SSR. The historian Stefan Troebst sees it as a "striving for the preservation of the Soviet heritage" and a demonstration of the "loyalty" of Transnistria to the Soviet Union, with which it wanted to distance itself from the government in Chișinău.

Article 13 of the Constitution of Transnistria from 1995 stipulates that the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic should have its own flag, coat of arms and anthem. The flag was officially established in a law of July 25, 2000.

Other flags of Transnistria

The presidential flag is based on the (civil) flag of Transnistria without a hammer and sickle, but has the proportions 1: 1. In the middle, the coat of arms of Transnistria is depicted, the design of which is also strongly based on the coat of arms of the Moldavian SSR.

In May 2009, members of the parliamentary group of the ruling party “Renewal” introduced the proposal to parliament to recognize the Russian tricolor as another flag of Transnistria. Three years earlier, in a referendum that was not recognized by the OSCE , a large majority of those entitled to vote had spoken out in favor of stronger ties to Russia. According to reports from the Russian state media agency RIA Novosti , on April 12, 2017, the Transnistrian parliament passed a law that allows the official use of the flag of Russia next to the flag of Transnistria. The Russian flag was then to be affixed to government buildings, among others.

  • 1: 1 presidential flag

  • 1: 2 Second national flag proposed in 2009, identical to the flag of Russia except for the dimensions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AI Skvortova: Transnistrian People - to Identity of Its Own? In: Moldova Academic Review . No. 1 , August 2002 ( Online ( Memento from April 28, 2005 in the Internet Archive )).
  2. ^ Trevor Waters: Security concerns in post-Soviet Moldova . In: Graeme P. Herd, Jennifer DP Moroney (Eds.): Security Dynamics in the Former Soviet Bloc . Routledge Shorton, London 2003, ISBN 978-0-415-29732-5 , pp. 137–138 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Natalia Cojocaru: Nationalism and Identity in Transnistria . In: Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research . tape 19 , no. 3–4 , 2006, pp. 266 .
  4. ^ Stefan Troebst: Cult of statehood in the pseudo-state: Identity management in Transnistria. In: Eastern Europe . tape 53 , no. 7 , 2003, p. 976-977 .
  5. ^ Constitution of the Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublika. Constitutional Court of Transnistria, accessed April 23, 2020.
  6. ↑ Приднестровье хочет ввести национальный триколор. In: Vwoiad , May 4, 2009, accessed April 24, 2020 (Russian).
  7. ↑ Transnistria frozen conflict zone recognizes Russian tricolor as second “national” flag. In: Euromaidan Press , April 13, 2017, accessed April 25, 2020.
  8. ↑ В ПМР российский флаг разрешили использовать наравне с государственным. ( Memento of April 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: RIA Novosti , April 12, 2017 (Russian).