On this trip, Eric and Thomas head to a country in Eastern Europe that doesn't exist that calls itself Transnistria..

Transnistrian leader Vadym Krasnosilsky has called for reconsidering some street names in Tiraspol, questioning the relevance of figures like Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, and Clara Zetkin.

After Mr. Putin launched his full invasion of Ukraine in 2022, all of Transnistria’s trade has passed through customs and border points under the authority of the Moldovan capital of Chișinău.

The head of Moldova’s breakaway region Transnistria has urged residents to burn firewood for heating and warned that blackouts cannot be avoided, after Moscow stopped supplying gas via Ukraine.

TIRASPOL, Transnistria — The hammer-and-sickle still flutters proudly over the park-lined thoroughfares in this capital of a country that doesn’t exist. The top of City Hall bears the Soviet ...

Transnistria has accused Ukraine of trying to kill its president. The attempted attack on the region's president was allegedly organized by Ukraine's national security service.

Transnistria has been facing widespread heating and power outages since January 1, when Moldova stopped receiving Russian gas due to the expiration of the gas transit agreement between Ukraine and ...

The unrecognized Transnistria has rejected EUR 60 million in aid from the European Union, although it is still in an energy crisis. Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean has announced this. "In the ...

With nearly a third of the region's half-million population being ethnic Ukrainians, Transnistria has received up to 68,000 Ukrainian citizens throughout the neighboring conflict, 20,000 of whom ...

International observers from Russian pro-Kremlin youth organisation 'Nashi' camp at 2006 referendum, Transnistria, cc Romanstr. The pro-Putin party ‘United Russia,’ by far the largest party in ...

Since then, Transnistria has existed in a state of international limbo, ruled continuously by former Communist apparatchik and Sean Connery look-alike Igor Smirnov.