The influence of the European Union on the Transnistrian conflict’s settlement
The article discusses the EU policy on the settlement of the Transnistrian conflict, which belongs to one of the frozen in the post-Soviet space. The author shows that even though the EU has not been involved in the resolution of the conflict for a long time, already in the 2000s it started to actively act in this direction. The author shows that the declared interests of the EU, as a rule, are at variance with its real goals. The article notes that the Transnistrian conflict is at the crossroads of the interests of the Russian Federation and the EU, therefore it is necessary to understand the activities of European structures to resolve it as well as their policies. The Transnistrian conflict is one of the “calmest” in the post-Soviet space, which is why the study of the positions of third parties to resolve it seems quite important in order to understand the effectiveness of their activities in the field of crisis management. The author concludes that the EU’s activities in resolving the conflict on the Dniester were built on supporting Moldova. In fact, the interests of the EU were opposed to the interests of Russia. Brussels tried to reduce its Russian influence in the region. Certain changes in the direction of the search for collective solutions (together with Moscow) were undertaken in 2010. However, with the outbreak of the conflict in the Ukraine in 2014, the situation changed again. In this research, a wide range of methods was used such methods of general knowledge as the synthesis method, historical-logical method, methods of comparison and generalization, system analysis.