TIRASPOL. Aug 30 (Interfax) - The leader of Transdniestria Vadim Krasnoselsky has proposed an administrative penalty for using the term Transinstria in reference to the unrecognized republic and submitted the relevant bill for consideration by the Supreme Council, his press service said in a statement on Friday.
"Use of the term Transnistria in reference to the Transdniestrian Moldovan Republic must be equated to a manifestation of Nazism and entail administrative liability in the form of an up to 15-day arrest or a fine of between 10 and 20 minimum wages (184 - 368 rubles) for individuals. For officials, the upper limit of the fine will be raised to 40 minimum wages (736 rubles) and for legal entities, the fine could range between 100 and 500 minimum wages (1,840 - 9,200 rubles)," the statement said.
The new legal clauses do not apply to cases "where negative attitudes are formed towards the Nazi and extremist ideology and there is no sign of a propaganda or justification of the Nazi and extremist ideology," it said.
Parliamentarians must examine the draft legislation as a matter of legislative necessity by September 5, Krasnoselsky's order published on his website said.
Krasnoselsky announced his intention to legislate against the use of the name Transnistria in reference to his republic at a press conference the day before. The term is a translation into Romanian and other languages of the name "Transdniestria" and means "beyond the Dniester."
"Some call Transdniestria Transnistria, that is a territory beyond the Dniester. But historically, Transnistria was a territory confined by the little river Dniester, Southern Buh and the Black Sea. Use of the term Transnistria in our [republic] is prohibited. This is blood, this is suffering, this is hatred, this is war. Throughout the existence of Transnistria, from August 1941 to 1944, some 350,000 Jews, who had lived in the so-called Transnistria, were killed, executed or burnt alive. [...] This is fascism, Nazism, mass executions, this is child murder, this is the Holocaust," Krasnoselsky said.
The name Transdniestria does not need to be translated into English, Romanian and other languages, he said.
"There is the good word: Transdniestria. It can be spoken in any language. Let them learn," Krasnoselsky said.
Earlier, the Moldovan government's bureau of reintegration expressed its opposition to the use of the term Transdniestria. The bureau recommended using either "left-bank [of Dniester] districts of the Republic of Moldova" or "transdniestrian region" with the lowercase letter.