Russia, Moldova and Transnistria region

A brief explainer of everything you need to know about the region, its worsening crisis and why it all matters to the rest of Europe.
In the capital of Transnistria, a self-declared microstate sandwiched between Moldova and Ukraine, the festive New Year’s lights have gone dark ahead of schedule. This separatist sliver of ...
Transnistria – a pro-Russian breakaway territory on the Ukrainian border – split from the rest of Moldova after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. It had been receiving Russian gas via ...