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In the summer of 2004, the Transnistrian authorities forcibly closed four of the six schools in the region that taught Moldovan language using the Latin script. Some of the 3,400 enrolled children were affected by this measure and the teachers and parents who opposed the closures were temporarily arrested for up to six hours. During the crisis, the Moldovan government decided to create a blockade that would isolate the autonomous republic from the rest of the world. The blockade was ineffective because of a lack of cooperation from Ukraine , led at the time by Leonid Kuchma . Transnistria retaliated with a series of actions meant to destabilize the economic situation in Moldova, in particular, by cutting the power supply from the power plants that were built in Transnistria in Soviet times. As a result, this crisis generated power outages in parts of Moldova. A leading figure in the conflict was Elena Vasilievna Bomeshko , the Minister of Education for Transnistria. According to her, and official Transnistrian policy, the language is referred to as Romanian when it is taught in Latin script and referred to as Moldovan when Cyrillic script is used. The closed Romanian schools were reopened but they still have the status of "private schools" and consequently do not receive funding from Transnistrian government. As publicized by the government in 2006, there are now 6,700 students at ten secondary or high schools. In the state financed system, there are 33 schools in Moldovan (Cyrillic script) of the total of 186 schools. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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