 While the PMSSR was popular in Transnistria's cities, there was considerable opposition in rural communities.While OSTK supporters took control of city soviets in 1990, this was not the case in most of the raion soviets with their agricultural constituencies.The new leadership of the Grigoriopol raion "soviet" did not support the separatist movement and the new Dubossary and Slobozia "raion" soviets actively supported the government in Chişinău.