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.

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 ...

Visiting the breakaway republic of Transnistria in Moldova is akin to stepping back in time to the old USSR before it dissolved - a land of soviet style buildings, communist relics, and stodgy cuisine ...

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 ...

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, a 249-mile long strip of land at the border with Ukraine inhabited by some 470,000 people, is internationally recognized as part of Moldova but has been under the control of ...

Transnistria proclaimed independence from Moldova in 1990 and de-facto runs itself independently of Chisinau, the Moldovan capital, but is not internationally recognized.

Transnistria is the site of a former USSR ammunition depot that is believed to be one of the largest in eastern Europe. The statelet's railroads, ...

Transnistria’s population has dropped from 700,000 at the end of the Cold War to 300,000 as the region’s young head to Moldova proper, which is also depopulating, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Explosions and gunshots in Transnistria, the Russian-backed separatist territory in Moldova, are raising fears that Moscow is looking to escalate its grab for territory beyond its war in Ukraine.