{"id":445101,"date":"2018-01-03T19:48:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T19:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=445101"},"modified":"2018-01-03T19:48:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T19:48:31","slug":"operative-group-russian-troops-transnistria-skiing-competitions-0c-temperatures-no-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/operative-group-russian-troops-transnistria-skiing-competitions-0c-temperatures-no-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Operative Group of Russian Troops in Transnistria had skiing competitions. At above 0\u00b0C temperatures, with no snow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>The Operative Group of Russian Troops illegally stationing in the Transnistrian region of Moldova reportedly had skiing competitions for the Russian soldiers and their families.<\/p>\n<p>A press release of the <a href=\"https:\/\/structure.mil.ru\/structure\/okruga\/west\/news\/more.htm?id=12157078%40egNews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russian Ministry of Defense<\/a>\u00a0dating to 2 January 2018 reports that over 50 families of the Russian military participated and around 1000 people attended the competition. The event included races, as well as sports quizzes.<\/p>\n<p>The main stage of the competition included a ski race for 2000 meters, divided into 3 parts. The men had to ski for 1200 meters, the women for 600 meters, while the children only for 200 meters. Three families won the competitions, but all of them received prizes and souvenirs with the symbols of the Russian Defense Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still hard to imagine skiing in Transnistria at the current moment: this year, the winter in the region has been mild, with almost no snow, and temperatures over 3\u00b0C almost all the time. Moldova.org can confirm this from Chi\u0219in\u0103u, which is 60km from Tiraspol, that there is snow and that everyone is rather diving in the spring mud.<\/p>\n<p>According to the weather data, it hasn&#8217;t snowed in Tiraspol since 22 December 2017. Moreover, the snow must have melt until now because of the unusually high temperatures for this period of the year:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_445103\" style=\"width: 1031px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-445103\" class=\"wp-image-445103 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/no-snow-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1021\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/no-snow-1.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/no-snow-1-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/no-snow-1-768x326.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/no-snow-1-400x170.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-445103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">28 December 2017- 3 January 2018<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_445104\" style=\"width: 1022px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-445104\" class=\"wp-image-445104 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/snow-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1012\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/snow-2.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/snow-2-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/snow-2-768x345.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/snow-2-400x179.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1012px) 100vw, 1012px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-445104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">23 December 2017-28 December 2017<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_445105\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-445105\" class=\"wp-image-445105 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/snow-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/snow-3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/snow-3-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/snow-3-768x323.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/snow-3-400x168.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-445105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">20 December 2017- 26 December 2017, the only period with light snow and negative temperature<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So how did the Russian soldiers ski? In the mud?<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> Besides the 402 so-called peacekeepers, Russia holds the Operative Group of the Russian Forces in the Transnistrian region of Moldova containing approximately 1200 regular soldiers, mainly recruited among locals. The Group is the new shape of the former 14th Guards Army of the Soviet Union that is illegally stationed in Transnistria after the collapse of SU. The Group and the Peacekeeping Mission are strongly interconnected through the rotation of troops between them and both contain local Transnistrian men with Russian passports, despite their neutrality claims.<\/p>\n<p>The Republic of Moldova\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/withdrawal-foreign-military-forces-territory-moldova-supplementary-item-72nd-un-ga-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">addressed the United Nations<\/a>\u00a0with the request to include the issue of the withdrawal of the Russian peacekeeping forces from Transnistria to the agenda of the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly. In a letter from the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Moldova to the UN, Victor Moraru stated that the presence of Russian troops\u00a0<strong>\u201cconstitutes a danger to the maintenance of international peace and security.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0The subject was due to be discussed in the plenary session of the UN General Assembly on 23 October but then was delayed by the Moldovan Representative to the UN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>The Operative Group of Russian Troops illegally stationing in the Transnistrian region of Moldova reportedly had skiing competitions for the Russian soldiers and their families. A press release of the Russian Ministry of Defense\u00a0dating to 2 January 2018 reports that over 50 families of the Russian military participated and around 1000 people attended the competition. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":445102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reintegration","category-security"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>The Operative Group of Russian Troops illegally stationing in the Transnistrian region of Moldova reportedly had skiing competitions for the Russian soldiers and their families.<\/p>\n<p>A press release of the <a href=\"https:\/\/structure.mil.ru\/structure\/okruga\/west\/news\/more.htm?id=12157078%40egNews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russian Ministry of Defense<\/a>\u00a0dating to 2 January 2018 reports that over 50 families of the Russian military participated and around 1000 people attended the competition. The event included races, as well as sports quizzes.<\/p>\n<p>The main stage of the competition included a ski race for 2000 meters, divided into 3 parts. The men had to ski for 1200 meters, the women for 600 meters, while the children only for 200 meters. Three families won the competitions, but all of them received prizes and souvenirs with the symbols of the Russian Defense Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still hard to imagine skiing in Transnistria at the current moment: this year, the winter in the region has been mild, with almost no snow, and temperatures over 3\u00b0C almost all the time. Moldova.org can confirm this from Chi\u0219in\u0103u, which is 60km from Tiraspol, that there is snow and that everyone is rather diving in the spring mud.<\/p>\n<p>According to the weather data, it hasn&#8217;t snowed in Tiraspol since 22 December 2017. Moreover, the snow must have melt until now because of the unusually high temperatures for this period of the year:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_445103\" style=\"width: 1031px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-445103\" class=\"wp-image-445103 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/no-snow-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1021\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/no-snow-1.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/no-snow-1-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/no-snow-1-768x326.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/no-snow-1-400x170.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-445103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">28 December 2017- 3 January 2018<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_445104\" style=\"width: 1022px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-445104\" class=\"wp-image-445104 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/snow-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1012\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/snow-2.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/snow-2-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/snow-2-768x345.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/snow-2-400x179.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1012px) 100vw, 1012px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-445104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">23 December 2017-28 December 2017<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_445105\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-445105\" class=\"wp-image-445105 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/snow-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/snow-3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/snow-3-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/snow-3-768x323.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/snow-3-400x168.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-445105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">20 December 2017- 26 December 2017, the only period with light snow and negative temperature<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So how did the Russian soldiers ski? In the mud?<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> Besides the 402 so-called peacekeepers, Russia holds the Operative Group of the Russian Forces in the Transnistrian region of Moldova containing approximately 1200 regular soldiers, mainly recruited among locals. The Group is the new shape of the former 14th Guards Army of the Soviet Union that is illegally stationed in Transnistria after the collapse of SU. The Group and the Peacekeeping Mission are strongly interconnected through the rotation of troops between them and both contain local Transnistrian men with Russian passports, despite their neutrality claims.<\/p>\n<p>The Republic of Moldova\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/withdrawal-foreign-military-forces-territory-moldova-supplementary-item-72nd-un-ga-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">addressed the United Nations<\/a>\u00a0with the request to include the issue of the withdrawal of the Russian peacekeeping forces from Transnistria to the agenda of the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly. In a letter from the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Moldova to the UN, Victor Moraru stated that the presence of Russian troops\u00a0<strong>\u201cconstitutes a danger to the maintenance of international peace and security.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0The subject was due to be discussed in the plenary session of the UN General Assembly on 23 October but then was delayed by the Moldovan Representative to the UN.<\/p>\n<div class='heateorSssClear'><\/div><div  class='heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing' data-heateor-sss-href='https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/operative-group-russian-troops-transnistria-skiing-competitions-0c-temperatures-no-snow\/' data-heateor-sss-no-counts=\"1\"><div class='heateor_sss_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\" ><\/div><div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_ul\"><a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" 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