By Iulian Ernst in Bucharest Authorities in the breakaway region of Transnistria, in eastern Moldova, are seeking a loan of over €122mn to cover a deepening budget deficit after Russia halted its long ...

Transnistria broke away from Moldova during the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and the region is home to people who are linked almost equally to Russia, Romania and Moldova.

Both Ukraine and Moldova have cracked down on those using Transnistria as a money-laundering hub, adding to fiscal pressures. Its 50,000 or so pensioners exceed the working population.

The promised EUR 60 million would be enough to cover 70% of social energy consumption. Transnistria was supposed to pay money for transporting gas from the Moldovan border. Tiraspol was also supposed ...

A couple of hours before meeting Terescenko and Verejan, I was heading the opposite direction. For almost 23 years, Transnistria has—with the help of about 1,500 permanently stationed Russian ...

Dubbing Transnistria “Sheriff Republic”, investigative outlet RISE Moldova found that by 2015 one third of all the money from the separatist enclave’s budget was paid out to companies owned by Sheriff ...

When there was no mention of Transnistria — Moldova's Russia-led breakaway republic — in Vladimir Putin's speech on Feb. 29, Moldovans sighed with relief. A day prior, the leaders of the ...

According to Transnistria’s de facto State Customs Committee, 27 percent of the region’s exports in 2015 and 58 percent of its exports in the first quarter of 2016 made it to the European ... But they ...

The President of Moldova, Maia Sandu commented on the outcome of the Congress of Transnistrian deputies and their appeal to Russia, saying that in th ...

Transnistria’s president says his region’s economy is slipping as economic troubles in Russia continue. (Photo: OSCE/Igor Schimbator) Fifty-eight-year-old Veronica Zinici, a pensioner from the ...