The 1997 Moscow Memorandum, also known as the Primakov Memorandum (after the then-Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov of Russia), is an agreement governing relations between Moldova and Transnistria. Transliterated from the original Russian text, the full formal title of the document is Memorandum on the principles of normalizations of the relations between the Republic of Moldova and Transnistria. The memorandum's historical importance followed the need for both Tiraspol and Chişinău to normalize relations in the wake of the 1992 War of Transnistria.