Behind her a $100,000 Mercedes sits parked in a row of similarly luxurious cars on Karl Marx Street, another particularly ironic reminder that the privatization of Transnistria’s industry in the ...

A series of unexplained explosions have occurred in parts of Transnistria, a breakaway territory within Moldova that has housed Russian troops for decades, sparking fears that Moscow’s war could ...

Transnistria is a breakaway state, recognized by no sovereign nation. It’s a sliver of land sandwiched between Moldova and Ukraine and only a little larger than Rhode Island, the smallest state ...

Transnistria also has about 10,000 of its own soldiers. Moldova is constitutionally neutral, so Russia could not cite the country seeking to join NATO to justify an invasion, as Russian President ...

The instability in the Russian-speaking enclave of Transnistria has raised questions over whether Russia will attempt to send troops stationed there on a fresh incursion into Ukraine.

Earlier this year, Transnistria faced an energy crisis after Ukraine halted the transit of Russian gas to Europe and Moldova starting January 1, 2025. Ukraine had offered to help address the ...

Transnistria hosts some 1,500 Russian troops, according to the Wall Street Journal. The attacks Transnistria experienced earlier this week saw the local government blame Ukraine for them, which ...

1. What is Transnistria? Transnistria – officially called the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic – is a narrow strip of land between Moldova and western Ukraine that is home to about 500,000 ...