Provides an overview of Transnistria, including key facts about this breakaway region of Moldova. ... Advertising panel in Tiraspol displays the official coat of arms of Transnistria.

A woman walks past a huge coat of arms of Transnistria in Transnistria's capital of Tiraspol on September 11, 2021. Explosions were reported in the breakaway republic allied with Moscow days after ...

The coat of arms of Transnistria greets visitors to Tiraspol, the self-declared capital of this breakaway region of Moldova. Photography by Janice Dickson/The Globe and Mail. Share.

A coat of arms of Transnistria - Moldova's pro-Russian breakaway region on the eastern border with Ukraine - in Transnistria's capital of Tiraspol, September 11, ...

On paper, Transnistria looks like a perfect place for President Vladimir Putin’s forces to occupy. As well as hosting a garrison of pro-Russian troops, it stores 20,000 tonnes of weaponry, much ...

The coat of arms of Transnistria is depicted on a banner in central Tiraspol, self-styled capital of the pro-Russia separatist region in eastern Moldova, May 5, 2022.

A woman walks past a coat of arms of Transnistria in 2021. (Sergei Gapon/AFP/Getty Images) Analysis by Adam Taylor. For decades, Transnistria’s reputation was as an outdated oddity in Europe.

Advertising panel in Tiraspol displays the official coat of arms of Transnistria. The separatist authorities exercise tight control over the media.