Timeline of Events in The War of Transnistria - 1990

1990

• 15 July 1990: Anatoly Lukyanov, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in Moscow, sends a letter written by Transnistrian and Gagauzian separatists to "Izvestia" (a widely read Russian newspaper).
• August 1990: The Moldovan SSR refuses to participate in the referendum for the retention of the Soviet Union, but in the Gagauz and Transnistrian regions - and with the help of Soviet 14th Army (according to an agreement between Anatoly Lukyanov and Igor Smirnov) - a referendum is organised.
• 2 September 1990: The Transnistrian Republic is proclaimed in Tiraspol.
• 16 September 1990: A meeting protesting against separatism is held in the village of Lunga, near Dubăsari.
• 2 November 1990: The bridges over the Dniester are blocked by separatists. At the bridge near Dubăsari, clashes are reported between the police (who wanted to open the bridges) and civilians supporting separatism. Moldovan forces open fire at the separatists, causing 3 deaths and several wounded. Two of the dead are ethnic Moldovans, who support independence for Transnistria. The third, also an independence supporter, is an ethnic Ukrainian.
• 22 December, the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed a decree "regarding the measures that would bring the situation back to normal in the Moldavian SSR".