Breakthrough (Transnistria)

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Breakthrough is the English name for Cyrillic ПРОРЫВ (Proriv, in Russian), a political party in Transnistria whose methods are allegedly modelled on pro-western organizations Otpor, Kmara and other participants of colored revolutions in the post-Soviet countries. It was founded in 2005 as a political youth organization part of the international Proriv organization.

A year later, on June 2, 2006, it formally registered itself as a political party. It uses the yellow as political color and the world-known B&W photo of Communist guerrilla fighter Che Guevara as a symbol. In order to provide training for the young political activists a 'Che Guevara High School' has been established. [1]

It has a mostly slav female leadership, with Alena Arshinova as president and Olga Paterova (born 1984) as press secretary. .According to newspaper reports the organisation is financed by Transnistrian authorities and the mentor of the organisation is Dmitrij Soin [2][3] Soin is also wanted by Interpol in connection with murder and an international arrest warrant has been issued. The organization supports the continuation of the republic's independence which was declared on September 2, 1990 and rejects any talk of potential reunification with Moldova. At the same time it is often critical of Transnistria's leadership, in particular president Igor Smirnov.

Breakthrough has been in 2006 one of the most active forces opposing the Ukrainian presidency position on the Ukraine-Transnistria border customs conflict with street action and tent city protests on the border.The organisation is also very critical of the OSCE and the government of the Republic of Moldova. During various political demonstrations of Breakthrough OSCE flags were replaced and Moldovan flags were burned. [4][5] In the Transnistrian referendum, 2006, it opposed unification with Moldova, as did a reported 94% of the electorate.

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