Transnistria’s energy crisis highlights the region’s vulnerability. The enclave, which split from Moldova in the 1990s, relies on Russian military and economic support.

Transnistria contains most of Moldova's industrial infrastructure, but its economic potential is limited by its international isolation. It has its own currency, constitution, parliament, flag and ...

Pro-Russian rebels in a separatist sliver of Moldova have asked President Vladimir Putin to protect their region from what they claim are threats from Moldova’s pro-Western government.

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, a pro-Russian breakaway region in Moldova, made an appeal to Moscow for protection on Wednesday amid worsening tensions with the pro-Western government in Chișinău.

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 ...

Transnistria’s call for unspecified help from Moscow risks an escalation of the previously frozen conflict with the pro-European Union government of President Maia Sandu, while giving Russia an ...

Under the terms, Transnistria had until 1 March to either return the gas or pay for it. Background: Effective 1 March, energy tariffs in unrecognised Transnistria will be raised following the region's ...

On 9 December, Vadim Krasnoselsky, the leader of the unrecognised Transnistria, signed a decree declaring an economic emergency due to the potential disruption in Russian gas supplies to the province.

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 ...

The separatist region of Transnistria or Trans-Dniester - a narrow strip of land between the Dniester river and the Ukrainian border - broke away from Moldova in 1990. The international community ...

Pro-Russian rebels in a separatist sliver of Moldova have asked President Vladimir Putin to protect their region from what they claim are threats from Moldova’s pro-Western government.