The pitch, from Transnistria Tour, focuses on one of the city's main attractions: its many statues of Lenin and other Soviet-era heroes that in much of the rest of the former Soviet world have ...

The Bender Fortress, which looms above the Dniester not far from Tiraspol, is one of Transnistria's primary tourist attractions, and inside is a monument to the Baron of Münchhausen.

The region's tourism industry has been boosted by grants from the EU and US and while there are other attractions here, such as a booming wine and cognac industry, it is still Lenin and the hammer and ...

If you’re looking to visit somewhere really off-the-beaten-track, the self-declared independent state of Transnistria should have you fumbling for your passport.