Moscow has long viewed Transnistria as a strategic outpost and ... hold Russian passports and are citizens of Russia. In 1992, after a war in which Transnistrian forces were aided by the former ...
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.
Transnistria did not ... But a few months into the war, Russia’s energy giant Gazprom sharply cut gas supplies to the country and hiked its prices, citing unpaid debts. Moldovan officials ...
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has accused Russia of using "gas as a weapon" and waging a "hybrid war" in Moldova, where the breakaway region of Transnistria has been without Russian gas sinc 1.
Transnistria has only a few weeks before it goes from ‘Saint Putin, save us!’ to ‘Europe, feed us!’. The Moldovan police will soon peacefully return it to where General Alexander Lebed’s tanks once ...
Since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine in 2022, Moldova has been importing gas from the European market instead of from Russia. Transnistria, however, was still supplied with Russian gas ...
Transnistria’s media outlets ... Drugs, Scams and Sin: Myanmar’s civil war has made the chaotic country a magnet for criminal syndicates, particularly from China, destabilizing law enforcement ...