Lenta PMR News Agency

The news agency Lenta PMR (Russian: Лента ПМР) was a non-governmental, nationwide online news service disseminating news from Transnistria, Moldova and abroad.

Lenta PMR
Лента ПМР
Private limited company
IndustryNews media
FoundedJuly 2004 (2004-07)
Defunct2013
HeadquartersTiraspol, Transnistria, Moldova
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Roman Konoplev
(Editor 07.2004–03.2008),
Dmitry Soin
(Editor 04.2008–2013)
ProductsWire service
Websitetiras.ru

History

Lenta PMR was founded on July 2004 by Russian strategist and publicist Roman Konoplev and Dmitry Soin. The agency published news and analysis of social-political, economic, scientific and financial subjects on the Internet and via e-mail. The main purpose of the project was to analyse the situation in Moldova and Pridnestrovie (also known as Transnistria).

The last editor-in-chief of Lenta PMR is Dmitry Soin. Soin is a former lieutenant colonel of the Transdnistrian security service and director of the Che Guevara School of Political Leadership, Transnistrian politician, parliamentary, the leader of Party «Proriv!».

After the presidential elections of 2011 in Transnistria the agency Lenta PMR has become known as an opposition-leaning.[1]

On December 2012 news agency was banned in Transnistria and its owner, Dmitry Soin, moved to Ukraine after receiving a series of threats.[2]

gollark: Interesting.
gollark: You are not paying enough attention, I think.
gollark: Clearly, people want to edit submissions lots now you reminded them that this was possible?
gollark: *I* should submit an update to #10!
gollark: We did that all the time for RPS.

References
  1. Tiraspol introduces Internet censorship
  2. 2015 Nations in Transit Report on Moldova - Moldova | Freedom House


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